“I dreamed that all of Germany would fly up into the air, and the two of us would lie, buried alive in still warm ash and debris, breathing the last remnants of oxygen, and I would spend my last breath on a long, long kiss.” Not too much. A wealthy but talented writer receives a very categorical invitation to visit a castle in Upper Bavaria. Here, Alexander von Brücken, the fabulously wealthy heir to one of the families that provided the military power of the Third Reich, lives in complete solitude. What is this odious old man going to tell the world? About the collapse of Nazi Germany? Or about your passionate, invincible love for Sophie? They were put in the same bed in a bomb shelter when he was fourteen. Soon she demanded from him a monstrous sum of 50 marks for the first kiss.