当汽车在沙漠中抛锚时，在沙漠中发生的一切可以变成狂欢。 InWittelbacherpalais,Munich’sprisonandGestapocenter,middle-agedElseGebelawaitstrialforcarryinganti-Nazimaterial.SheservesasaclerkintheGestapooffice.OnThursday,18February1943,twoyouthsarriveattheprison,arrestedforcarryinganti-Reichpamphletsandsuspectedofdroppingleafletsfromtheuniversitytowerandpaintinganti-HitlersignsalongLudwigstraße:Sophie,21,andherbrotherHans,24andbackfromtheRussianfront.SophieishousedwithElse,andforfivedays,asSophieisinterrogatedandchargesbrought,thewomenformabondbasedonsimpleinteractions:poetry,tea,sharedclothing,courage,loveoffreedom,andapromiseElsegivesSophie. 
