The birth of their daughter brings them closer together, but just as love and honesty come to seem possible, one of Walter's wartime comrades appears on their doorstep. The two make the practical decision to marry-Walter offers Anja the shelter of his uncle's Tyrolean farm, and Anja helps one-armed Walter with the farmwork-and they gradually come to feel affection for each other. In a displaced persons camp, she meets, across a barbed wire fence, former Wehrmacht officer Walter Fass, himself forever plagued with guilt for the massacre of partisan fighters in Yugoslavia. Polish-born Anja has left her former existence behind, fleeing Krak¢w, where she betrayed Resistance fighters to the Germans. Memory is the terrible burden shouldered by the protagonists of Moran's novel, survivors of WWII who became executioners in order to live.
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