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,berriers have fallen,and a whole new tide of 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 redically changed world will lead to heart attack.