Identical twins Hilda & Helga are the blonde-haired, blue-eyed ideal- at least according to Uncle M, the researcher-turned-father-figure at the children’s home in 1940s Germany. After being accidentally exposed to American media, the twins become convinced they’re destined for vaudeville stardom. But as they fret about fame and adulthood, they grow less identical- and more questioning of their “ideological education.”