The Western secret agent Lemmy Caution has been a “sleeper” in East Germany for decades. His handler orders him to make his way to the West, but in the wake of the dismantling of the German-German border, Lemmy seems unsure of the terrain – “Which way is the West?”. The disoriented spy wanders around the dissolving country. In Buchenwald and Weimar, he is confronted by apparitions of historical German cultural figures. In a strip-mining region, he meets Don Quixote and Sancho Panza girded up to tilt at windmills and fight modern dragons. Then he finally reaches Berlin and its topography of terror: “As soon as I crossed the border, I met the ghosts.”<br /> That quote from F. W. Murnau’s <em class="film-other">Nosferatu</em> accurately describes the situation of audiences who were engulfed by an unremitting wave of fragmented thoughts and film quotes in this multi-layered collage of sound and images. Godard said in 1990: “You still see the old Germany and you see the new Germany, which is deeply American, while the old one was Prussian. And they will move each other. That’s what I wanted to do, to film that movement, those events.”