The end of World War II. In Hitler’s concentration camp “Mellern,” prisoners are dying from mockery, hunger, and exhaustion. What remains for people drowning in the fiery whirlpool of war—people whose hope and love have been taken away, and in essence even their life itself? What remains for people who have nothing left at all? Only a spark of life. A weak but unextinguishable spark. A spark of life that gives them the strength to smile at the threshold of death. A spark of light in the darkest darkness.