COLD WAR LOVE
Against all odds
The touching and shocking story of Yvette Grabner, a black girl growing up with her twin sister in the very white and socialist country of East Germany in the 1970’s. She faces daily discrimination but uses running as a way to gain respect. She makes the National East German track and field team but it is then at an international competition she falls in love with Mark McKoy, a Canadian hurdler.
The Fall of the Wall
She becomes paranoid and believes the East German secret police, the Stasi, are spying on her while she secretly has a relationship with Mark. When the Berlin Wall falls down she escapes and travels to Canada to be with Mark. He goes on to win the gold medal for Canada at the Barcelona 1992 Olympic games
Excerpt from the Show
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