Paranoia. Anxiety. The chilling suspicion that something, somewhere, is not quite as it should be. You could be on the brink of ruin at the hands of your closest friends, family, lovers. Or it could all be in your head.

Welcome to East Berlin, 1984, where an esteemed playwright and passionate believer in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) is about to learn the hard way how this brave new socialist utopia really operates.

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