A Black Sheep: Diary of an escape from East Germany

East Germany, 1984. At the age of nineteen, Anne Lavin chooses a route never-before-taken to start out for a new life in the West. An organised trip to Algeria enables the young woman to embark on an adventurous escape spanning two continents. As described in her diary, the circumstances of "real-life socialism" in her hometown of Jena shed light on her reasons for making a break for freedom.