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The long-awaited second instalment of the epic historical trilogy; the people of Weimar Republic-era Berlin search for answers after the lethal May Day demonstration of 1929. Tension builds along with the dividing wall between communists and nationalists, Jews and gentiles, as the dawn of the Second World War and the rise of the Nazis draws closer.

The lives of the characters within Lutes’ epic weave together to create a seamless portrait of this transitory city. Marthe Muller follows lover Kurt Severing as he interviews participants in the May Day demonstration, but moonlights in the city’s lesbian nightlife. Lutes creates a sense of anxiety and imminent doom.

Drawn & Quarterly, paperback, 216 pages, published September 2008

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