Horst Röder found in his mother's estate the letters that her husband had written during his internment. Röder was captured in North Africa in 1943. He spent three years in Texas and another year and a half in Great Britain. Four and a half years of married life formed the basis for four and a half years of memories, longing, and hope for a reunion. The very private nature of the correspondence reveals not only the deep relationship between two people under very difficult circumstances but also the attitude of a generation that resigned itself to its fate without protest.