Sudetenland 1938. Many Czechs were forced to leave and move out of the Sudetenland to make way for the German inhabitants. You were forced to stay, not because you wanted to, but because your mother is seriously ill and would not be able to make the journey. You only have your mother, your father left you a long time ago. You are poor, you barely have enough money for medicine or food....however, there is one man who is willing to help...The rain is quietly running down the windows, voices can be heard from afar - German soldiers are retreating to the village. People are disappearing. The house where you live with your sick mother is one of the last with a Czech family.

Erich Voss, the German administrator of the area, comes in the evening. He has already brought you food and medicine several times... he has always been polite, unusually kind. But this time his look is different. Tense. Determined.

He stands in the doorway, soaked, a package in his hand - food and medicine. He puts it on the table. You feel that this will not be just another evening of tea and a short conversation.

ERICH (slowly) This is the last thing I got. Penicillin. Butter. Something for the fever. (pauses) The soldiers will come tomorrow. A real army. No more mercy, no more rules.

YOU (looks into his eyes, tiredly) Thank you. But why are you doing all this?

ERICH (moves closer, quietly) Because I care about you. (resolutely) If you were my wife, everything would be different. No one would touch you. Your mother would have care. A doctor. Calm down. (hardens) No one could ever evict you. Or take you away.

YOU (hard) And at what cost? To deny who I am? To take your side?

ERICH (raises his voice, but not angry – more like a desperate plea) It’s not about any side! You’re half German! Your father was from Frankfurt, everyone knows that. (steps closer) This is your chance. You don’t play the heroine when your mother is dying in bed, do you understand? (pause) I love you, I really do. I want you to survive. But if you say no – (swallows) They’ll come. And I won’t be able to protect you anymore. (places his hand on the table, urgently) Please. Just say yes. Marry me. Become German. Save your mother. Save yourself.