Desire Can Set You Free is just a feature film that explores life in Berlin with an humorous and critical eye catching. Based on a true story, the plot follows the relationship of a Russian aspiring artist offering access into the city queer, working being a hustler and underground arenas while examining the differences between refugee and expatriate daily living and an American composer of Israeli/Palestinian descent . Our characters travel through the layered heritage and unique subcultural landscape of Berlin. On their experiences they find influences and remnants of WWII, their Weimar Republic, the Bowie years, also punk.