A bittersweet gay romance narrated by an African-American expatriate landing in West Berlin as Cold War tensions ease and the infamous Berlin Wall soon to fall. His infatuation with East Berlin wunderkind Heiko Heinz precipitates an emotional journey of self-discovery. Heiko's own self-reinvention parallels the dramatic changes Germany undergoes in the swiftest political and socioeconomic transition recorded in modern times. The first original English-language novel depicting the East Berlin cultural underground and the thriving gay scenes on both sides of The Wall.