Shores of Hope

Rostock, East Germany, 1984. Fast friends Cornelius and Andreas, more familiarly known as Conny and Andy, arrive at the port town of Rostock. Young, confident and hopeful, they fully expect to soon be seeing the world as merchant sailors. Much of the lustre of their dreams is gone when three years later finds them still working as dock hands but an opportunity arises when they are approached by the Stasi. The deal is they find out if their foreman is plotting to escape to the west and they will become sailors. This first step marks the beginning of a series of events that sees the two friends pulled apart and brought together.