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East Berlin, on the morning of October 9, 1989: The famous actor Otto Wolf (Jörg Schüttauf) is in the rehearsals for a secret play entitled "Vorwärts immer", in which he portrays Erich Honecker. Otto is shocked to heart he demonstrations against the GDR regime planned for the evening in Leipzig are to be shot down with all their might - and his pregnant daughter Anne (Josefine Preuß) is on her way there! So Otto and his colleagues hatch a daring plan: As long as the "real" Erich Honecker is on the hunt in Wandlitz, Otto as "fake" Honecker is to enter the Central Committee and take back the gun command to Leipzig.