Fall 1989: No one suspects that these are the last days of a small country. Especially in the contemplative village of Malkow, in the middle of the German Democratic Republic, everything is going its usual way – the socialist way.

At least at first glance. In the shadows, though, 10 year old Rike together with her friends Fabian and Jonathan is working on a spectacular invention, that will change the world, or at least beam back her uncle Mike from West-Berlin to Eastern Germany: a beam machine.

What they don’t suspect, the parents of Rike also plan to leave the GDR. And the policeman Mauder, a true comrade of the government, is already hard on the heels of the inventive three friends.

The plot thickens when the experiment takes an unexpected turn on November 9, 1989: it is not Mike, who lands back in Malkow, but the villagers on the Berlin Wall. Did the children accidentally change the world?