In this riveting rediscovery written from within Nazi Germany, a naΓ―ve young girl finds her happy-go-lucky life impinged upon when the FΓΌhrer comes to town to make a speech.
Sanna and her ravishing friend Gerti would rather speak of love than politics, but in 1930s Frankfurt, politics cannot be escapedβ even in the ladyβs bathroom. Crossing town one evening to meet up with Gertiβs Jewish lover, a blockade cuts off the girlsβ pathβit is the FΓΌrher in a motorcade procession, and the crowd goes mad striving to catch a glimpse of Hitlerβs raised βempty hand.β Then the parade is over, and in the long hours after midnight Sanna and Gerti will face betrayal, death, and the heartbreaking reality of being young in an era devoid of innocence or romance.
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