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Helene stands on a German railway platform in 1945, knowing that after surviving the horror and deprivation of the war years she cannot bear to raise her seven-year-old son who demands too much love and expectation from her - and so she abandons him there and never returns. How did she come to this? From the rural childhood that was ended by the first world war, to the marriage and family that was destroyed in the second world war, Helene's story...