Similarly, in the movie Goodbye Le East woman, who dedicated her life to the perpetuation of Communist Party ideology, slips into she just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. When of a wakes up eight months later, she is a member capitalist society. While she has been overnments have tumbled, barriers have fallen, and a whole new tide of Western goods and values has come flooding eastward to an eagerly awaiting public. loving son, Alex, that the 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.