Alexander and Alexandra... Professor of art history Reschke and restorer Pentkovskaya. German and Polish. They meet by chance on All Souls' Day at the gates of the cemetery, exchange random phrases, buy dark red asters and mushrooms, which they put in a string bag, an attribute of bygone times. This is how their romance begins. “The Cry of the Fireball” - a story about a tragic past or a sad present? About love or cruelty? A “bitterly comic” story about what was lost, as the author believes, or fantastic ideas about how to reconcile people whose homeland was taken away?