She was a World Champion, World Record holder, and a World Class athlete. One of the best swimmers of her time. Franziska van Almsick was a teen idol and the face for many advertising campaigns. She was "Franzi," the darling of the Germans, in the eastern and western part. And she was Franzi, the fallible one—glorified and abandoned by the tabloids. She triumphed, failed, and found herself again. The moving story of Franziska van Almsick, the first superstar of the reunified Germany.