Christmas is approaching, and with it, the desire for harmony, beauty, light, and hope. Unable to cope with her parents' conflict, 16-year-old Alex makes a radical decision; the next day she finds herself in the adolescent psychiatric emergency unit. There she meets three other young people: 17-year-old Lara, striking daughter of an academic family who's having acid flashbacks; shy 16-year-old Fedja, who is being bullied at school; and violent 17-year-old Timo, who has just been moved from the closed ward. Under the care of 38-year-old psychiatrist Dr. Wolff, they will spend a Christmas together that none of them will ever forget.
The story follows a group of German soldiers, from their Italian R&R in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and ending with the battle for Stalingrad.
At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
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