Epistolary novel a spread of 12 November 1932, to March 3, 1934 between two friends, Martin Schulse, 40, German, married and father of three boys, and Max Eisenstein, 40, a German Jewish and single. Both men are longtime partners in a prosperous business trade tables in San Francisco and when Martin decided to return to Germany, they correspond naturally. Martin tells his friend his return home, his difficulties and his personal success to readjust to the German way of life, his rediscovery of Germany and material poverty of most Germans fifteen after the end of the first war World. By telling the gloomy economic atmosphere, it also evokes the seductive hope for a better world qu'insuffle a certain Adolf Hitler, now head of the government, charismatic man who seems endowed with an incredible energy. Throughout the match, Martin changes his point of view at the beginning hesitant and suspicious about the motives of Hitler and his party, he is seduced by promising discourse and gradually change his attitude before displaying full membership (and constraint?) to the values conveyed by Nazism. His friend Max, stayed in the United States is increasingly worried by rumors of anti-Semitism rampant in Europe and fears for the safety of his Griselle sister, an actress who plays a part in Berlin. He asked Martin to look after her and help if needed. When Griselle, pursued by brown shirts, is murdered in the same garden of Martin because he had refused him shelter in his house, Max, relentless, retaliates by epistolary way ... This epistolary novel is not only a fictional episode of history poses beautifully on but the individual responsibility of personal choice and critical approach to social pressures. A must read to understand the past and to reflect on the present.