Fifty years after the Berlin Wall went up on August 13, 1961, this film looks at how the Stasi, East Germany's secret police, still shapes German life. It follows the vast paper trail the Stasi left behind: millions of surveillance files on ordinary citizens, neighbors informing on neighbors, and the archive workers now tasked with sorting through the wreckage so victims can finally read what was written about them. Interviews with people confronting their own files sit alongside historians and archivists explaining how the system of informants operated and why unraveling it decades later remains slow, painstaking work. The film treats the Wall's anniversary as an occasion to ask what a surveillance state leaves behind once it falls, and what obligation a reunified country has to reckon with those records rather than seal them away. It is a document of bureaucratic repression and of the quieter, ongoing work of accounting for it.