A young German boy named Alex pulls off an elaborate plan to keep his mother healty in this comedy drama. Suffering a heart attack and falling into a coma after seeing her son arrested during a protest, The Alex's socialist mother remains comatose through the fall of the Berlin wall and the German Democratic Republic. Knowing that the slightest shock could prove fatal upon his mother's awakening, Alex strives to keep the fall of the GDR a secret for as long as possible. Keeping their apartment firmly rooted in the past, Alex's scheme works for a while, but it's not long before his mother is feeling better and ready to get up and around again.