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Leipzig, autumn 1989. What began in St Nicholas? church as prayers for peace develops within just a few weeks into the immensely powerful Monday demonstrations with thousands of East Germans taking to the streets. They are demanding more freedom, civil rights and democracy! They are rising up in protest against a state, which suppresses its own citizens, incites people to spy on each other and keeps them under constant surveillance. This docu-drama is the story of party officials prepared to resort to violence and of people who overcome their fears. It is the story of nameless individuals whose courage changes the world and marks the beginning of the end of the East German state - and of the entire Eastern Bloc.