Having grown up in a special residental area near Potsdam Babelsberg where the elite of the leading party and culture in the GDR reside in close proximity to the berlin wall, two young boys decide to „jump" over the wall one night in the early 70s. They take a look at west berlin and return to the east 26 later the same way they left. Though the fugitives for a day are part of safe nomenklatura families and additionally deciede not to speak of their excursion to the west, their adventure doesn’t stay without consequences. The film „Wall Jumpers" tells the story of an unbelievable excursion of tho friends from their nowadays quite different perspectives.