For anyone carrying guilt or grievance so large that reconciliation looks impossible, who still has to get up every morning. About living alongside the unforgiven without pretending it isn't there.
A film about a man carrying guilt so overwhelming that even other people's sincere forgiveness cannot lift it.
a novel about how an idea built to justify murder collapses not under evidence but under the murderer's own conscience.
a novel about a disgraced professor who ends up on his daughter's farm in the new South Africa and has to relearn how to live without the privileges he once took for granted.
I thought America hated me. I stopped breathing. But I learned that you must be honest with yourself before you can be honest with others.
A German businessman who starts out simply profiting from the war and cheap Jewish labor gradually, and never smoothly, crosses over into risking everything to save lives the system had already marked for destruction.
We cannot move forward unless the past is acknowledged and healed.
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.