Twenty-five years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, filmmaker Petra Epperlein returns to the Oz of her childhood to uncover the truth about her father's suicide and his rumored Stasi past. Had he been an informant for the secret police? Was her childhood an elaborate fiction? Pulling back the curtain on her past, she enters the parallel world of the German security state.
Twenty-five years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, filmmaker Petra Epperlein returns to the Oz of her childhood to uncover the truth about her father's suicide and his rumored Stasi past. Had he been an informant for the secret police? Was her childhood an elaborate fiction? Pulling back the curtain on her past, she enters the parallel world of the German security state.
