Acclaimed pianist who returns to Germany decades after being forced into slave labor at a shoe factory near Auschwitz during the war. She navigates encounters with her past while performing modern compositions on the piano, ultimately becoming central to a finale that critiques postwar West Germany's unresolved Nazi legacy.
The protagonist bridges her traumatic past and her contemporary reality through memory and performance.
Ernst holds administrative authority over Magdalena during her wartime forced labor.
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