A German writer with a tumultuous family history struggles to escape his chaotic, painful past through prose. When a mysterious woman enters his life, he allows himself to hope for a fresh start—but unexpected circumstances soon put his dream in jeopardy.

In 1938 Vienna and on the cusp of World War II, a young boy spends every Wednesday at his aunt and uncles home, where no one calls him by name and instead addresses him as "the Guest."

A series of "sketches" illustrating the perverse and horrific crimes perpetrated by soldiers during WW2.

A newly discharged veteran from World War II is finally on a train back home and anticipates his return to mundane life, even if he carries the burdens of war. Elsewhere across the ocean, Hitler anticipates his return to power.

A Jewish night-school teacher attempts to change an anti-Semitic student's negative assumptions about Jewish people.

A seventeen-year-old Jewish boy reflects on his life as he lies gushing out blood, on the brink of death, in Germany at the end of World War II.

In the 1930s, after flunking out of college, a young American man travels to Vienna where he meets a Jewish girl living on the floor below him. He returns home a few months later, but when the Nazis invade Vienna he can't help but think of the girl he once knew.

A young American woman visits her lover in Austria, torn between her passion for him and his Nazi-aligning values. Her routine visits with him and his sister occur during historical annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany.

In Miami, a Yiddish writer meets a multimillionaire who tells him tales of sex and survival during the Holocaust.

A young Englishwoman must reevaluate her romance with a Nazi soldier after parachutists attack the city.