The Sum of It All-‘The Twilight’
is about a small child beginning to develop his awareness of the
world around him during the early days of the Second World War.
The saga begins with an old man dying of cancer
in a hospital.
As he drifts in and out of a coma, he slips back
and forth between the present reality and his past life. Now in
his last moments he relives the events, but in the context of an
adult’s mind and understanding.
In his unconsciousness during the hallucination
he melts back into the young boy that he once was in his formative
years.
A strange dream that he experienced so long ago
resurfaces during the stressful moments of his ordinary life.
It doesn’t take him long to lose his childhood
innocence when he comes in contact with a violent death and
experiences a new odd emotion. ’Hate’.
For the first time in his life during his trip to
Germany he comes in contact with bigotry and some dark secrets of
the Nazi regime.
The Saga takes the reader through the child/man
experiences during the Soviet invasion of his native land and
subsequent deportation to Nazi Germany and Dresden.
The realistic presentation, illustrates how such
events, can change a child’s character.