Similarly, in the movie Goodbye Lenin, Kathrin Sass, an East German woman, who dedicated her life to the perpetuation of Communist Party ideology, slips into a coma just before the fall of the 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 a fallen, and a whole new tide of Western goods and values has come flooding eastward to an eagerly awaiting public. Her loveing son,Alex,fears that the shock of finding such a radically changed world will lead to a heart attack.