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Planet Earth. Population: 1. We have no idea how it happened. On the first of September 2019, something occurred. We were all fine one moment and then people began to die of suffocation. Little by little, the world was engulfed in a deafening silence. I survived this mysterious catastrophe thanks to my dad. When I woke, I found myself surrounded by the horrific panorama of millions of bodies.
Berlin, 1955. Latvian theater director Asja Lacis, crushed by the experience of ten years in a labour camp in Kazakhstan, returns home and visits her old friend Bertolt Brecht. After a brief conversation in which they both try to conceal their misery, Bertolt tells Asja that Walter Benjamin, the love of her life has died.