Recounts the extraordinary and compelling story of Jakob Shmarkovitz, a childlike mentally disabled man, as he finds love with a ballerina at the peak of Berlin's distressful history in the hands of the rampaging Red Army in 1945. While Soviet troops perform their Nemmersdorf atrocities and rape two million German women and girls as young as eight years old, the Yalta Conference involving President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin takes place in which the so-called "Office of State Security of Poland" (an agency of Poland's new Soviet-controlled government) imposed its own brutal form of "de-Nazification." After all, when one can only tell their love of their life "that everything will be alright", one must make sure it is not a lie.
