The extraordinary portrait of a literary giant. With "All Quiet on the Western Front," Erich Maria Remarque wrote one of the most famous and successful novels of the 20th century. Far from literature, he was a drinker and a lover of women, with affairs including Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo. In his biographical novel, Hans Boeters brings the writer back to life, from his childhood in Osnabrück to the streets of New York. It is primarily Erich Maria Remarque's love affairs that Hans Boeters dedicates his novel to: with the dancer Ilse Jutta Zambona, whom he would marry; with Marlene Dietrich, the "divine" Greta Garbo, or the Tsarina's niece Natasha Paley; and finally with Paulette Goddard, whom he meets alongside Charlie Chaplin and with whom he spends a liberatingly happy time. By depicting Erich Maria Remarque's love life, Boeters reveals the various facets of the writer.