Thomas Darchinger

When a well-off Munich family takes in Diallo, a refugee from Nigeria, he soon makes friends among the family members, but they are tested when they must face racism, bureaucracy, and terror suspicions because of him.

Follows three people whose paths cross during a terrible time of war: Olga, a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French Resistance; Jules, a French collaborator; and Helmut, a high-ranking German SS officer.

A teen orphan fights against the Red Army and in the aftermath of World War II is "adopted" by a Soviet commissar. Years later, during the Cold War, he is a KGB agent and is sent to London, where he ends up questioning his life.