Two young people in 1930s Germany, both intellectuals: he is a humanities scholar, she is an artist and writer with a sense of mission. Both are engaged in intellectual resistance against a National Socialism that stifles the spirit, and both suddenly succumb to the fascination of Adolf Hitler. Why? From their letters, diaries, literary attempts, and her own memories, the daughter of these two has compiled a captivating portrait, almost a novel - not least a harrowing testimony of the personal trauma of the 'Hitler child' Dagmar Kötscher.