A lonely young man, the only survivor of a subway flood during a wartime air raid, haunts the streets of East Berlin at night in search of the girl he saw in a forbidden underground theatre.

Four decades later, an old man goes missing on the evening of November 9, 1989, as the Berlin Wall opens and the world celebrates.

Daniel LeClerc has spent much of his youth working as a smuggler, moving unseen through the shadows of the walled city. Now, on his first case as a private detective, he searches for the old man amidst the chaotic reunification of the capital. Daniel is about to discover the shocking truth that his parents never told him, about his own origins and the crimes that were concealed behind the Iron Curtain.