Irmina

In the mid-1930s, Irmina, an ambitious young German, travels to London. Therse she meets Howard Green, one of the first black students at Oxford. Like Irmina, Green is looking for an independent existence - and a love affair between the two outsiders blossoms. But the relationship comes to an abrupt end when Irmina, constrained by the political situation in Hitler's Germany, has to return to Berlin. Political events speed up, and her letters to Howard are returned unopened. It will be 30 years until she receives another. Based on a true story, this moving graphic novel conjures the oppressive atmosphere of wartime Germany.