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 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 radically changed world will lead to a heart. 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.