I stared into his darkening eyes, catching myself on the edge of falling into them, and held my breath. I could feel my life ending. A gun stared me in the face and for a moment I didn't know if he would do it...
Kirsten Stein lives in Germany, living in a town east of the great Berlin Wall. She had lived in ignorance most of her life but the events before her 16th Birthday go hazy whenever she tries to remember them. Now turning 18, she meets a young man guarding the wall going by the name of Friedrich Eisenberg. She knows she's missing something about him but can't figure out what and only realises it when it's too late.