Berlin, spring 1948. Teenage cousins Erich and Katarina are just trying to survive in a city still devastated by World War 2 when the Soviets blockade the city isolating its citizensand starving thembehind the Iron Curtain. But the Americans have food, so Erich sneaks inside a U.S. cargo plane
where he is caught by a sympathetic American sergeant who tries to befriend him. Though Erich has plenty of reasons to resent this man, in the end he must decideshould he cling to bitterness or learn to forgive?