The dark room

Summary: "Retells the history of twentieth-century Germany through the experiences of three ordinary Germans. Helmut is a photographer's assistant during the 1930s. His acute photographic eye never provides him with the power to understand the significance of what he sees through his camera. Lore is a teenage girl whose parents are both in Allied captivity takes her younger siblings on a terrifying, illegal journey through the four zones of occupation in search of her grandmother. Micha, after the was is a young man trying to discover why the Russians imprisoned his grandfather for nine years after the war meets resistance at every turn." -- Jacket.