The Museum of German History in Berlin – a ›warehouse full of rubbish‹? Or a place that makes history visible? One thing is for sure, it's a place of baffling apparitions. A museum employee leaves under unusual circumstances. A visitor cannot find the exit. A dark corridor leads to a vanished world. A Stasi officer guards his own past. The restless ghost of Adolf Hitler wanders through the rooms. A mother and her child search for heaven. Rodin's The Thinker is put to the question. A museum can be enriched a great deal by literature. In this novel, the imaginary world transcends the real one, and the seven episodes of this book show just how thrilling, moving, illuminating and uncanny it can be. Whoever reads it will not ever be able to look at a museum in the same way again. Hartmut Lange's prose overcomes space and time, bringing to life not only the shadows which can be found in such a place, but also the great mysterious questions of our very existence.