A former German soldier makes a desperate choice: he kills an American Gi and takes his identity. It's a chance at survival.. and a sentence he can never escape. Pressured by U.S. intelligence, he is sent back into the ruins of his homeland as a spy against the Soviets. There, among the shattered streets and rising tensions of a divided nation, he must live a secret, double life-while the past claws its way back to the surface.