The 1980s of the GDR Franks puppeteer group is arrested for distributing pacifist leaflets After being sentenced to imprisonment the defendants are offered the opportunity to go to the West through a secret buyout of political prisoners Frank remains The same goes for the question of who betrayed them Different truths and memories stand side by side The focus is on a person who never tries to act from an attitude of victimization and who depicts his very personal way of dealing with the GDR dictatorship