The story follows paramedic Kathy Harms as she grapples with the overwhelming devastation caused by the 2005 Kashmir Earthquake. As a first-time medical aid worker, she faces the immense suffering of the victims while confronting her own inexperience in humanitarian efforts. The narrative highlights her emotional journey and the challenges of providing aid in a crisis, offering insights into the complexities of disaster response and personal growth in the face of tragedy.
The defeat of Hitler in 1945 left Germany a tabula rasa. Normal personal, civic and political life had to be reconstructed on entirely new foundations. The overriding question of German guilt naturally gave rise to other questions. How could the German catastrophe have come about in 1933? How did the successor states - the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic and Austria - view their joint past? In what ways did they rebuild their political, ecocomic and social structures?