Similarly, in the movie Goodbye Lenin, Kathrin Sass, an East German woman 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" goverment have tumbled,barriers have fallen, and a whole new tide of Western goods and values has come flooding eastward to an eagerly awaiting public.