Dresden in January 1945, its baroque splendour still undamaged. Nazi propaganda is stubbornly promising Germany’s final victory, but young Anna Mauth, a nurse at Dresden’s Martin Luther Hospital knows better. In England the RAF Bomber Command has turned its attention to cities in the east of Germany, aiming to assist the Soviet Red Army with bombing raids in the back of the Wehrmacht. On return from a raid on Magdeburg, British pilot Robert Newman is shot down. Severely wounded and disguised in civilian clothes, he makes it to Dresden, where he hides in the hospital basement.There he meets Anna. Her professional desire to help him overcomes her distrust and fear;secretly she starts supplying him with food and fresh bandages.But she isn’t yet ready to admit her true feelings about him to herself. Meanwhile, the RAF has prepared its next big raid and its target is Dresden. Only a few hours later the bombardment will raise a gigantic firestorm devastating the whole inner city.
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