An old Wehrmacht edition of Goethe's "Faust" is everything Tertta has left of her beloved Manfred. As a young man, he was one of 200,000 Wehrmacht soldiers to be stationed in the north of Finland between 1941 and 1944. Then the armistice from 19th September 1944 and the country's independence marked the end of the agreement with the German "brothers in arms"; their only option was to flee. Hundreds of young Finnish women who had befriended the privates joined them. Tertta was among them; early 1945 she said good-bye to her boyfriend Manfred in a camp near Hamburg and was never to see him again. In her visually very compelling documentary film, Virpi Suutari has interviewed several of these often traumatized women, all of them now well over 80 years old. They give accounts of unpleasant experiences in a bombed-out Germany, but also of alienation and defamation in their homeland, to which they returned after the end of the war. Amateur films in Agfacolor and documentary recordings convey a sense of immediacy of the times.