In October 1936, Leonidas - a director at Austria's Department of Education - received a private letter in a woman's pale blue handwriting. In it, Vera Wormser, a Jew with whom he had a love affair years ago, asks him to protect a young talented man who has to leave Germany for the usual and known reasons. With this news, a world collapses for Leonidas, whose complete sovereignty was recognized only formally by Nazi Germany.

Franz Werfel; Wilhelm Brauneder, Universität Wien; Matthias Pape, RWTH Aachen.