Two suitcases and a cuddly toy – that’s all Nelly and her son Alexej take with them to start their new lives in the West. A Volkswagen stops outside their house in East Berlin. A West German takes them across the border. Nelly claims they are getting married. She is nervous. It’s summer, the late 70s, three years after Wassilij’s death. Nelly’s boyfriend died in a car accident. Ever since, she has been wanting to leave, too. To quit the GDR, to leave the grief and the memories behind. To start over. That should be possible on the other side of the Wall, or so Nelly thinks. When she leaves, she is wearing a floral dress. But on the other side, in the West, she knows nobody. The first place of refuge for emigrants, the cramped emergency camp in West Berlin, is her only shelter. But it is also the place where Allied Secret Services interrogate her and where her past will catch up with her. Nelly has to decide whether she will allow the trauma of the past to destroy the future she had in mind for herself and her son.