1968 was a tumultuous year on both sides of the Iron Curtain. This story traces the development of a rather conservative young Englishman under the influence of events and people in Germany. It also portrays the fate of Hitler’s “last victims”, men whose lives were destroyed by their abductions as boys to work as slaves in the Third Reich. There is also an “eternal triangle: will Mark choose Ulrike, his “teacher” in many respects, or Alice, his initiator into the joys of sex?
