City of Women

It is 1943the height of the Second World Warand Berlin has essentially become a city of women. The men are fighting and dying at the front. Those who return alive are injured, ghosts of their former selves. But on the home front the women solider on. While her husband is entrenched outside of Mo [...]
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It is 1943the height of the Second World Warand Berlin has essentially become a city of women. The men are fighting and dying at the front. Those who return alive are injured, ghosts of their former selves. But on the home front the women solider on. While her husband is entrenched outside of Moscow, Sigrid Schröder is, for all intents and purposes, the model German soldiers wife: She goes to work every day, does as much with her rations as she can, and dutifully cares for her meddling mother-in-law, all the while ignoring the horrific immoralities of the regime. But behind this façade is an entirely different Sigrid, a woman who dreams of her former lover who is now lost in the chaos of the war. Her lover is Jewish. Before long, Sigrid finds herself embroiled in an underground world she knew nothing about. When she becomes responsible for hiding a mother and her two young daughters, who might be her lovers family Sigrid is forced to make an agonizing decision that could cost her everything.