Richard and Alan had been best friends at university, inseparable comrades in arms. Then over the course of the next twenty years, they drifted apart. Richard went into journalism, with aspirations to become a novelist,...

Two different families escape from the political tyranny of their respective homelands, the Josephsons from Sweden and Matias and Kurt Bauman, brothers from Germany and Austria Hungary, with the aid of a Viennese opera diva,...