East of Berlin Book

Rudi's father was a doctor in Auschwitz and conducted experiments on Jewish people and Rudi finds out through his friend Hermann and he can't understand how his father would've done such horrific things and he hits his father and eventually just leaves home. He goes on to become a medical student and might've become a doctor but he quits med shook when he sees how much like his father he could be - and that's when he meets Sarah, daughter of parents who are Holocaust survivors and his guilt is lessened by loving her - they were going to get married and she was pregnant but then the past barges in on the present in the form of Hermann - and he tells Sarah all the things Rudi never told her: his name, who his father really was, and Sarah is angry. Rudi wants to make it right with her and that's why he's now in Paraguay, outside his father's home with a gun, thinking if he kills his father, it'll somehow make things right, or be some kind of justice? But he opens the door and holds the gun up to his own head - so maybe he just can't live with the guilt anymore
- this would be such an intense performance!! I hope they remount it in Toronto soon!!