"The necessity of salvaging these militants, both anonymous and famous, from the trash bin of History." The action takes place in two different time periods, 1938 and 1989. Alfred Katz is a young Trotskyist torn between his passion for Mila, a model and surrealist muse, and his political activities, which are undermined by the Stalinist purges. He is assassinated after being betrayed by his best friend, a militant communist who will bear the burden of guilt until the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. Only Vaclav Havel's rise to power in Czecho-slovakia could have given him some hope...