going over

Ada has a full life on the other side of the Berlin Wall. Her childhood friend also a young teenager desires freedom. The wall around him, the Berlin Wall has prison guards who reign from shadowed towers and the stories of escapees from small children shot to death while only searching for frogs a few inches past the socialist side of the wall - to elder men who crawled through the tunnels as they crumbled and collapsed. The rest of the freedom goers, a lot of them made it to the other side of the wall, before and unlike Ada's grandfather who was going to rescue his daughter from her friend Stefan's side. Ada's grandmother blamed his death on Ada since Ada did not want him to go. She had made him gift her a special treasure before going. The short delay cost him his life.

Ada has not seen Stefan since they were pre-teens. Before the barbed wire and brutal sentries took charge, much of life seemed as enjoyable and carefree for a child as normal childhood. Now Ada gets on a bicycle and rides whenever she needs a break from the daycare for small children her home has become. Stories of two plumbers who made human buckets strung up on cable wire and made it to the other side of the wall and freedom hum and buzz throughout Stefan's town. On the other side of the wall Stefan has a life of oppression and darkness and complete imprisonment. Ada has a life of more light and life and a good amount of freedom which she spends wisely. But for Stefan on the other side escaping from such a place could mean one of two things. Either a life of freedom or sudden death by shotgun. The wall that formed because of a difference in political and religious beliefs has now separated lifetime friends, loved ones from families and even childhood friends. Who will take the risk among them to make a new life for themselves and face a life of possibilities? Who will stay dry and dead where a lifetime of imprisonment made to look like safety and security is the true death of the promising and deep and challenging creativity of the very soul?