Paul is an outsider at school, but then the new vivid girl Millie joins his class, and they’re becoming friends. At home, he catches his grandmother Liese and his Uncle Henri with a letter from his parents living in West Berlin. Grandma Liese’s reading the letter to Paul. When Paul visits his uncle in the Pergamon Museum, he’s been followed by a mysterious shadow. Back home, he finds that his grandmother and uncle lied to him about the content of the letter.