"Twenty-five years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), filmmaker Petra Epperlein returns to the proletarian Oz of her childhood to find the truth about her late father's suicide and his rumored Stasi past. Had he been an informant for the secret police? Was her childhood an elaborate fiction? As she looks for answers in the Stasi's extensive archives, she pulls back the curtain of her own nostalgia and enters the parallel world...

For Angela, the world of organized crime provides an exciting and sexy alternative to the life she's known. Dreaming of glamorous presents and nearly unimaginable power, Angela marries Saro, placing her in the center of a life of stolen goods, and questionable moral codes. Fascinated by risk, Angela has become the front woman in a shoe shop which is used as cover for her husband's growing drug business.