A bare-bone description of Good Bye, Lenin! makes it sound like a sitcom: a month before the Fall of the Wall, Frau Kerner (Katrin Sass), a True Believer in German Socialism, has a heart attack and falls into a coma. By the time she comes out, the Communist state is gone, but her loving son Alex (Daniel Bruhl), afraid the shock of the present will cause her another heart attack, sets about to organize her life as if nothing had happened