Description: Alexander, a German man born in Gdansk, lives in Germany. Aleksandra, a Polish woman, born in Vilnius, lives in Gdansk. He left Gdansk in 1945; left Vilnius also in 1945. They did not simply go away, they were exiled. They meet each other in Gdansk, in 1989, when Alexander comes back after more than 40 years. He was in Hitlerjugend when he was very young; she was very active as a member of the ZMP (The Polish Youth Association). Flirting and arguing, they fall in love. Both of them would like to contribute to the reconciliation of Poland and Germany. They begin the Polish-German Cemetery Society in order to give to the dead the right to symbolically come back to their homelands. |