 Heroes Like Us presents as heroes ordinary teenagers and young East German adults, who in Thomas Brussig s (the novel and screenplay author) story, caused the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Our young hero falls in love, from an early age, with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. Our hero s father, however, is a member of the "Stasi", the secret state police. The father not only hinders his son s relationship with the girl, but he arranges for his son, after finishing school, to become a Stasi spy himself. The absurdities of everyday life in the former German "Democratic" Republic are comically (sometimes tragically) are exposed throughout the film.