Germany 1947. A war lost, a country divided while shadows of the past linger over cities in rubble. Hunger is paired with self-pirty. When an additional twelve million expelled Germans from Pomerania and East Prussia arrive in the Rhineland and Bavaria, among them the Marlow family, the burden gets unbearable. German refugees are cursed and despised by their own nation in the west. Except on the Ten Eicken estate, where the Marlows are billeted by...