Potsdam 1989: The Secret City

**Potsdam, East Germany, 1989.** A teenage girl tries to flee the GDR. During the investigation, the Stasi finds a photograph of her with a young Soviet officer. What looks like a minor detail quickly becomes a serious security problem. Your daughter knew the girl. She once lent her a Russian dictionary. She also briefly spoke with the Soviet officer, without knowing who he really was. Now the investigation is reaching you. You are a civilian communications technician whose work occasionally takes you inside restricted Soviet facilities in Potsdam. As pressure on your family grows, East German State Security, Soviet counterintelligence, and eventually a Western intelligence service begin pulling you in different directions. Around you, the GDR is starting to change. Environmental groups organize, people try to leave, protests grow, and the political order begins to crack. A slow-burning historical espionage thriller about family, surveillance, divided loyalties, hidden communications, and the secret Soviet city at the heart of Potsdam.