Berlin 1948 A vanquished city of rubble - sliced into sections by the Allies, and set well back behind the Russian lines In the British sector was Squadron Leader Michael Harrison, a war hero who had helped to bomb Berlin into fragments In the Russian sector was young Lili Leicht, German, middle-class daughter of a university professor and now living in the ruins of her former home, trying to prevent her grandfather and two younger brothers from dying of malnutrition Her mother had been killed by British bombers As the tensions in the smoldering city grew worse, so Michael and Lili slowly fell in love It was a love that surmounted all the prejudices and hatreds of war and offered a hope of understanding for the future