The film explores the GDR’s final years and the expectations of the founding generation, focusing on the years 1989 and 1990. Andreas Goldstein juxtaposes personal memories with public and media images from East and West German television, revealing the contradictions of history. For Goldstein, East Germany is his birthplace, an attempt at utopia, the lost paradise he continues to rediscover in his films (Adam & Evelyn, The Communist), which form a directorial project proposing a singular and complex approach to the history of the GDR.