The Great Illusion

<p>The love between Klaus and Uma children of Slavic émigrés in Berlin collides with the Twentieth Century and emerges defeated.<br>Crushed by a cumbersome past and the looming present they cannot have a future together but only two individual lives separated by the Wall erected in the middle of officially pacified Europe with no declared wars.<br>Their story will resume with tragic implications after reunification and the illusion of a world finally free of confrontation and violence.<br>The rush of events will overwhelm their generation and the next particularly the lives of Franz and Olga who are inextricably linked to a Destiny that has quietly worked in the shadows throughout the century marking the events and decisions of grandparents fathers sons and grandchildren.</p>