In the middle of the post-revolutionary, Communist ecological reconstruction of Berlin, comrade Michael lives through what appears at first to be only a personal drama. His girl-friend of many years wants to become a man. In the new society, that should not be a problem. There is free love and everybody does what they please. Yet Transphobia still turns out to be so virulent in Germanic lands that in order to be acknowledged as a man, Katina is forced to undergo several painful operations, which have to be financed by crypto-euro. From Schwerin to Moscow to Lausanne and on to Paris, Cato is handed on from one clandestine capitalist outfit run by ex-pharma oligarchs to the next…