While cleaning out the headquarters to find items to bring to the flea market, Henri digs up an old Geiger counter. Meanwhile, Hannes’s ex-girlfriend Debbie shows up and starts behaving inappropriately, and Nina doesn’t understand why Max still won’t talk to her.

When Henri notices that his Geiger counter has gone off, he quickly alerts Emma. Emma’s convinced it’s just an old piece of junk, but when Debbie sees what’s going on, she makes a suspicious phone call. Meanwhile, Max is still refusing to talk to Nina.

An intruder grabs Henri — is he going to kidnap him? Meanwhile, Nina gets stuck in the elevator with Max, who may now finally be forced to talk to her.

At lunch, it becomes clear that Debbie is actually a pretty shady character. Meanwhile, Henri is kidnapped, and Nina and Max finally have it out in the broken elevator…

Max and Nina are trying to make the best of their awkward time stuck in the elevator together. Meanwhile, Henri is very relieved when Emma finally comes home. Together they search for evidence against Debbie… and find it!

After learning what Henri and Emma have uncovered in their investation, Hannes realizes the truth about the origins of the tea Debbie sold to them. In the meantime, the maintenance technician hurries over to fix the elevator – but maybe it wasn’t such an emergency after all. See for yourself!

Die Klasse – Berlin '61 is a docudrama about a class of students who commuted from East Berlin to the West on a daily basis to attend school, and the consequences of the construction of the Berlin Wall. The story is told through interviews as well as reenacted scenes.

Even though adolescents who were denied the right to attend high school in East Berlin could find ways to continue their education in the West, neither the commute nor the social dynamics were easy.

The students at the Kepler School can spend their evenings out in West Berlin as well, but are constantly dealing with the boundaries.

As rumors began that the border was to be closed, the students began to wonder how their studies and lives would progress.

Smuggling items to relatives who had left Berlin was a difficult mission. At the same time, it often seemed difficult to completely comprehend how high the stakes would be.

Outside of the classroom, the students who travelled to the West for school were confronted with important life decisions and their consequences.

Tough decisions had to be made as the future became more and more uncertain. Even the annual class trip required students living in the East to travel separately.

On the way back from their class trip, the students already have the feeling that their lives will never be the same again.

As the first incarnation of the Berlin Wall went up, the students and their families scrambled to make quick decisions.