The story unfolds, relaying bits and pieces from past visits, while Ada deals with other issues at home and at work that include worrying over her fragile mother, and trying to save a young Turkish boy from a precarious situation. With every visit to Stefan, she urges him to make plans, telling him she won’t wait forever. Obsessed with finding a way for Stefan to escape to West Berlin, Ada has been using graffiti as an outlet, ultimately filling 13 panels with anti-East propaganda and visual stories of those who successfully escaped the communist Eastern Bloc. The women were childhood friends, growing up together during WWII and its aftermath, but separated during the Cold War by the Berlin Wall. For as long as she can remember, she and her grandmother, Omi, have been visiting Grossmutter and Stefan every three months using day passes obtained from the government. She’s on the West side–the free side–while her boyfriend, Stefan, resides with his grandmother on the East side. She lives in 1980’s Berlin, near the wall that separates the East from the West. Ada Piekarz is a 15-year-old daycare worker by day and graffiti artist by night.
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