The culmination of the radical activism of Valur, Rútur and Steinbjörn is a stunt whereby they photobomb the October 1986 Reykjavík Summit, raising a banner saying 'Destroy the fascist Soviet states of America!', while Valur threatens the assembly with a dummy M16 gun. Valur is shot and slightly wounded by a secret service agent and arrested, while a stray bullet hits another bodyguard in the eye. Valur escapes prosecution, however, by fleeing on his brother's passport to the East German part of Berlin, where the state later gives him a new identity, as Magnus Heinz. Rútur and Steinbjörn escape the attention of the police. In East Germany, Valur meets a new partner, a Polish radical socialist called Aldona, though after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gerður visits briefly and has sex with Valur, leaving when she realises that Valur has a partner. Valur later has a child by Aldona called Lára. Valur's best friend in Berlin is Karl-Elke, whom he helps escape to West Germany, and who returns to East Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall to start a cafe.