Two families come up with an ambitious and dangerous plan to escape from authoritarian East Germany in the 1970s.

"About a decade after the balloon flight, the Berlin Wall fell as communism in Eastern Europe collapsed. While Germany was reunited in 1990, the opposite was true of the old pair of friends...

Two families come up with an ambitious and dangerous plan to escape from authoritarian East Germany in the 1970s.

"About a decade after the balloon flight, the Berlin Wall fell as communism in Eastern Europe collapsed. While Germany was reunited in 1990, the opposite was true of the old pair of friends...