The ground-breaking television series set in 1980's Cold War Germany. The Cold War is heating up. Russian SS20 Missiles in East Germany and pointed West, American Pershing II Missiles will soon be placed in West Germany to point East. The very real threat of nuclear conflict looms. Martin Rauch, a 24-year-old East German native, is thrust from the world he knows and sent over the wall to the West as an undercover spy for the Stasi. Everything is new to him, no one can be trusted and the safety of the world is in his hands.