November 10th, 1989: Claudia Bierschenk was thirteen years old when the Berlin Wall came down. In this intimate memoir, she reveals a world ruled by ideology, restrictions, half-truths, superstition, but also magic and humour. With a child's curiosity, she observes the grown-ups' strange behaviour as they cope with the day to day existence of living on 'the wrong side' of the Iron Curtain.