Berlin, 1948; teenage Freya's German-born father brings her to the nerve-centre of growing East-West tension. World War Three seems about to break out. In the devastated city, full of half-starved, traumatised people, Freya is haunted by memories of her dead English mother - killed in Berlin, she's been told, by a speeding car. But why does her father hate to speak about his wife, and why has her grandmother cut all the pictures of Freya's mother...