When Hans meets the young and beautiful stepmother of his school friend Hellmut Quandt, he has no idea what role Magda will play in his life, both personally and years later as a fanatical National Socialist and model mother of the "Third Reich." The Weimar Republic is still in its infancy, and Hans is hopelessly and intensely in love with Hellmut. But after a tragic accident, Hans and Magda begin an affair, hoping for solace and advantages: she wants to escape her marriage, he wants to conceal his homosexuality. Only when Magda meets Joseph Goebbels and joins the Nazi Party does their relationship break down. While Magda and her children soon appear in newsreels, Hans finds himself increasingly in danger. A novel that spans over twenty years, tracing the path of two people and a country—a path that was not inevitable. In her new novel, Nora Bossong paints an intense portrait of the woman who became Magda Goebbels and her young lover. Two people caught in the machinery of historical events, entangled in different ways, bearing different guilt. Including guilt towards themselves. New product