As she makes her way back to Germany after the end of World War II, Margo slowly uncovers the sordid institutions of Switzerland and Germany that sundered her family in the first place, where even tender young children were simply a means to an end, then discarded.
While she was forced into contract labor in Switzerland as a “Verdingkinder,” her older brother was being indoctrinated in a “Kinderlandverschickung,” extreme Darwinian camps meant to filter out the weaklings in a group. None of these institutions were openly acknowledged by the governments involved, and most of the information was destroyed by them. To this day little is known of these contemptible systems. Most reprehensible of all, no one cared what happened to the children afterwards…