Confined to a tuberculosis ward in Germany in the early 1950s, a group of children deal with life, death, and plans to escape while listening to the fantastic stories of a mysterious patient, the "Empress of China.".
A thirteen-year-old girl describes her journey from the Russian sector of defeated Germany to Cologne on a transport carrying returning refugees in 1946.
At a family gathering in Berlin years after World War II, Kate relives some of the events described in the diary of a dead aunt who once was a member of the Hitler Youth.
A thirteen-year-old girl describes her journey from the Russian sector of defeated Germany to Cologne on a transport carrying returning refugees in 1946.
