The plagued climate of the era is realized in the encounter and later in the friendship between the general Konrad Von Der Berg, who refused to command a ruthless suppression of opponents and from whose diary the story is drawn, and Eric Von Lehner Baron, who has orders to escort Von Der Berg to a prison camp.
General Konrad von Der Berg
Baron Erich von Lehner
Margarethe
Elvira von Lehner
Herbert von Lehner
Klaus von Knobelsdorf