Such a soul torments young composer Georg von Wergenthin, around whom the author creates a precise picture of the fin de siècle, its neuroses and its politics. Georg starts a relationship with a young singer, but does not confess to her in front of his friends, even when she becomes pregnant by...
Milly Cohen lives in modest circumstances with her grandmother Cathy and her little brother Kevin. After the death of her parents, she gave up her art studies and works for the antiques dealer Philip Barnes, a handsome but uncouth bachelor. Philip only realizes that Milly has become the pearl of...
Hans Engler, a modest, reserved man, lives in Hamburg. He has never married and has no family of his own, but lives with a couple as a subtenant in simple accommodation. On Hamburg's Reeperbahn, of all places, Engler earns his living as a waiter in a shabby "establishment", in the middle of an...