Barbara

In the 80's, In East Germany, Dr. Barbara Wollf is transferred from the prestigious Charite Hospital in Berlin to a small hospital in the countryside after being imprisoned. She is still under the surveillance of Stasi and submitted to frequent inspections and strip searches. The hospital is led by Dr. Andre Reiser, who is gentle with her and forced to prepare reports about Barbara or any other suspicious person to a Stasi Agent. He confides to Barbara he was sent to the hospital because of an accident with incubators from New Zealand when two babies were blinded, and Barbara questions whether is true or not but he does not respond her. When the police bring the teenager Stella to the hospital for the fourth time, Barbara finds that she has meningitis and Andre that she is pregnant. Stella wishes to escape from East Germany and raise the baby, but she is sent back to a labor camp when she recovers. Barbara is planning to defect East Germany with her lover Jorg to Denmark and he gives money to her to prepare the departure. When the suicidal Mario arrives at the hospital, Andre believes he needs a brain surgery and asks a second opinion to Barbara. When Barbara talks to Andre's girlfriend, she realizes that he needs the surgery and looks for Andre to tell him. Meanwhile Stella flees from the labor camp, and Barbara will exit East Germany this night.