Bury the Dead

Just as fifteen-year-old East Berliner Erika Nordern is preparing for an important track competition, sinister police inquiries and the apperance of a relative believed to be dead indicate that her family has not yet escaped the shadow of long-ago Nazi crimes.The peaceful home life of the Norderns, a model East German family, and the promising gymnastic career of sixteen-year-old Erika Nordern are jeopardized by the arrival of Uncle Karl, a long-lost relative whose reappearance sparks controversy and questionably official inquiries