The war is over, but Berlin is a desolate sea of rubble. There is a shortage of everything: food, clothing, tobacco. The local population is scrabbling to get by. Kasper Meier is one of these Germans, and his solution is to trade on the black market to feed himself and his elderly father. He can find anything that people need, for the right price - even other people. When a young woman, Eva, arrives at Kasper's door seeking the whereabouts of a British...

Set in post-war Berlin, this moving and timely story about love and war, sacrifice and forgiveness, which packs a powerful punch as it follows a courageous and driven woman's quest to find her lost family and her own redemption in the ruins of a broken city, once her childhood home. With a dual narrative that seamlessly interweaves past and present, 'Return to Berlin' also gradually lifts the veil on a shattering secret.

Berlin. 1963. The height of the Cold War and an early morning spy swap. On one side of the trade: Martin Keller, an American physicist who once made headlines, but who then disappeared into the English prison system. Keller's most critical possession: his American passport. Keller's most ardent desire: to see his ex-wife Sabine and their young son. But Martin has questions: who asked for him? Who negotiated the deal? Just the KGB bringing home one...