The setting is Berlin, 1989, a bustling metropolis of three million souls 110 miles behind the Iron Curtain. Marianne Tucker, still emotionally wounded from being jilted at the altar, decides to start her life anew, a journey that takes her from sunny San Diego, California, to exciting Berlin, the divided and dangerous capital city of Germany. While working as a Foreign Service Passport Officer at the American Consulate, she encounters her runaway ex-fiancé and tangles with the woman who had destroyed their lives.