It's the summer of 1980 in East Germany as well as independently, Barbara is restricted to working and living as a physician in a little town - for attempting to emigrate to the West, her punishment. She has just one attention. To escape and she's got to wait. Off path, her manager in a medical facility, takes her until Andre. Are his reasons of love or duty to the authorities? As the stress builds, content supervision, and the daily pretense slowly take their toll.