![]() With Georg a hundred miles away and a husband confronting his own difficult feelings toward patriotic duty, Etta alone must gather the pieces of a splintering family, determined to hold them together in the face of an uncertain future. ![]() But soon after he arrives, it's clear that the boy who left is not the same returned. When Max is unexpectedly discharged, Etta is relieved to have her eldest home and safe. At home, news of the war provokes daily doses of fear as the planes grow closer, taking one city after the next. In Heidenfeld, Etta and her husband Josef roam an empty nest- their eldest son Max is fighting on the frontlines, while fifteen-year-old Georg has swapped books for guns at a N rnberg school for the Hitler Youth. Germany, 1945, and the bombs are falling. ![]() ![]() ![]() They've wrecked the world, these men, and still they're not done. A story of the shattering impact of war on one German family, The Vanishing Sky is a deeply moving portrait of why decent, caring people falter when confronted by evil. ![]()
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