However, if they are caught, the consequences will be deadly. Then, when she receives a mysterious drawing, Gerta puts two and two together and concludes that her father wants Gerta and Fritz to tunnel beneath the wall, out of East Berlin. Nielsen comes a stunning thriller about a girl who must escape to freedom after the Berlin Wall divides her family between east and west. But one day, while on her way to school, Gerta spots her father on a viewing platform on the western side, pantomiming a peculiar dance. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their own citizens she, her family, her neighbors, and her friends are prisoners in their own city.

Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, to think forbidden thoughts of freedom, yet she can't help herself. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. She, her mother, and her brother, Fritz, live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets.

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