Mark West thinks his life is pretty close to perfect- until he learns that his wife Laura has been cheating on him with a co-worker. Faced with this rude awakening, Mark happily accepts an offer of a job transfer to Leipzig, Germany, to help start up an Eastern European branch of his company. His escape doesn't turn out to be quite as peaceful as he might have hoped, however. Mark soon finds himself entangled with Sophia, a glamorous artist with some disturbing connections, and Frau Wachter, his mysterious concierge, who turns out to be a former Stasi agent. Bad Choices tells the dramatic story of post-unification Germany through the eyes of a naive American who has a great deal to learn about himself, women, and modern Germany.