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
ill-at-ease 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...