ACROSS THE WALL - Our Story

Katja Meier is a young woman living in East Berlin. Her father Volker Meier is a Major in the Grepo Border Guard and he is responsible for stopping East Berliners escaping over the Wall to West Berlin. Katja sings in the bars and Cafes of East Berlin but dreams of one day becoming an Opera Star. Her father uses his influence and gets her an audition for the East Berlin Opera House and she is accepted into the company.  Katja confides in one of the company members that she believes the Wall should be torn down and is denounced to the Stasi.

She is subsequently dismissed from the Opera House for her beliefs and for not joining the Communist Party. Katja decides to escape across the Wall to West Berlin and freedom. She is assisted by her boyfriend Andreas and his brother Peter, but only one will escape, one will be imprisoned and one will die at the hands of her father, Major Volker Meier.