As he lay in his sickbed in Loughborough in the English Midlands in April 2020, battling COVID-19, the author, a medical doctor, brooded over various issues, including the never-ending misery of his native Africa. In what can be described as an extraordinary extraterrestrial visitation, he is suddenly transposed into the past, back to his junior doctor's days in Germany. He finds himself driving in his car through the little German town. Stadtoldendorf,...