After Stalin's purges, Zinaida Volkova, daughter of Leon Trotsky, is exiled to Berlin. As the Nazis rise to power, and World War II is approaching, she becomes obsessed with Antigone, the protagonist of a famous Greek tragedy, and loses her mind.

Zina, the daughter of Leon Trotsky by his first wife, is undergoing freudian analysis in Berlin in the thirties. Meanwhile, Trotsky is in exile in Prinkipo having been driven from power by Stalin. The Nazis rise to power in Germany and Austria, and Zina commits suicide.—chris bright <[email protected]>