An air mail pilot takes the Gloria, before the plane has been fully tested, to fly across the Atlantic with his mechanics in a tale based on the first transatlantic flight from East to West by the Junkers Bremen, in April 1928.
"The world collapses and we can not stop its collapse." This sentence writes a Berliner early 1945 in her diary. The war, the Nazis unleashed in 1939, has long been lost, but Adolf Hitler leads his people undeterred into ruin.