on February, 24, 1920 two babies it is fated to become that by brothers give birth in Berlin. In the same day Национал-социалистическая party is created in Munich.Paul and Отто are inseparable and both look like the Jewish parents, although not nearly alike on each other. They and does not guess that one of them the adopted child, - moreover, not jew. Their father plays on jazz clubs, a mother treats patients, life in Germany hardly coming to oneself after Great wars, put right slowly. Brothers grow together, together are friends with by one girl, together fall in love in other. But when nazis come to power, life changes irreversibly and terrible: in a nightmarish country suddenly blood and origin appear topmost.Ben Элтон is the British writer, stage-director, scenario writer of ситкома "Black Viper" and creator of musical of "We Will Rock you" - wrote a piercing and honest novel on reasons of history the family. As well as in life, here are a laughter and tears, tenderness and malice, loyalty and treacheries. It is history about what people are ready to endow for the sake of survival - it and those, who they love. That to do them with an everyday hatred, with persistent memory, with uncalming down pain - and as out this everything loneliness, fear and cruelty, grow at times, and at times is kindness, wisdom and happiness.A book contains an unprintable bad language.