Tells the stories of three ordinary germans: helmut, a young photographer in berlin in the 1930s who uses his craft to express his patriotic fervour. Lore, a twelve-year-old girl who in 1945 guides her young siblings acr...Tells the stories of three ordinary germans: helmut, a young photographer in berlin in the 1930s who uses his craft to express his patriotic fervour. Lore, a twelve-year-old girl who in 1945 guides her young siblings across a devastated Germany after her nazi parents are seized by the allies.