Of love and death of a young aviator - and voices from the past. A young aviator, Marga von Etzdorf, shoots herself in May 1933 in Aleppo, Syria, after a crash landing. She is 25 years old. Her grave is located in the Berlin Invalids' Cemetery. What is she doing here, among the dead of Prussian military history, Nazi figures, and civilian victims of the last days of war? Is there an explanation for her violent death? The city guide, who leads Uwe Timm's narrator through the Invalids' Cemetery, points out disturbing neighbors. Here lies not only Scharnhorst, the hero of the Wars of Liberation, but also Heydrich, the organizer of the Holocaust, next to nameless victims from May '45. The dead begin to speak, to explain themselves, to justify themselves. Among the voices that speak to the narrator is also that of Marga von Etzdorf.