Of a Small Instrument That Achieves Great Things
In February 1945, the young instrument maker Paul takes a harmonica with him to the front, hoping to spread at least a little joy. He dies, but his best friend Erich manages to save the instrument and flees with it. Thus begins the harmonica’s odyssey – it finds its way to Brittany, helps a young boy in Paris find his voice, and, after stopovers with a junk dealer and the pastor’s son Will in the USA, resurfaces in Germany, where an unexpected encounter takes place in the 1990s...
»He did not know why the memory of another time suddenly became so overpowering. But he let it happen. One could fight against many things, but not against the power of music.«
