In the movie Goodbye Lenin. Katrin Sass and East German woman who dedicated her life to the perpetuation of communist Party ideology. slips into a coma just before the fall of Berlin wall. when she wakes up eight months later. she is a member of a capitalist society. while she has been asleep. governments have tumbled barriers have fallen. and a whole new tide of the western goods and values has come flooding eastward to an eagerly awaiting public. her loving son. Alex fears that the shock of finding such a radically changed world will lead to a heart attack. So he prepares an elaborate plan to protect her from the truth and to make her believe that the world she lives in now is the same as it used to be