Fatherland

Persona Non Grata in his homeland protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin his wife and child and emigrate to West Berlin where the representatives of an American record company are eagerly waiting for him They plan to exploit his defection from communism both ideologically and financially But Klaus as illatease in the West as he was in the East is reluctant to be used as an expendable commodity Leaving his contract unsigned or signed in his manner he leaves for Cambridge to meet his father a concert player who just like him left East Berlin thirty years ago as Klaus was a little boy He is accompanied by a young French journalist Emma who knows where his father has been living since he disappeared for more than a decade The young lady is cooperative but might hide things from him