Adam & Evelyn

Adam and Evelyn tells the story of a couple from the provinces of East Germany, over the summer and autumn of 1989. Adam is a freelance tailor who has built himself a comfortable niche outside conventions, while Evelyn is waitressing. After she surprises Adam in what she believes is an inappropriate embrace with one of his customers, she storms off. She makes for Hungary on holiday, taking not Adam, as planned, but her friend Simone and Simone’s West German boyfriend Michael. Adam travels after Evelyn. On the way to Hungary, he picks up Katja, who is trying to use the increasingly porous borders to escape to the West. Again and again, Adam opens his eyes, as though trying to wake from a dream.