With their country plunged into political crisis by anti-Government strikes " a group of young East German students are ordered to "persuade" them to go home peacefully. But as a battalion of Soviet tanks confronts the protestors, the students soon begin to question their mission and whether they will find themselves on the wrong side of history. Discover the little-known true story of the 1953 East German uprising that planted the earliest seeds for the fall of the Berlin Wall 36 years later.