At the beginning of our century, we could still believe that Europe was on the brink of an era of openness. Today, a quarter of a century later, we have arrived in a different reality. We treat migrants with mistrust and we watch Russia's war in Ukraine with bewilderment. Martin Gross follows the traces of this development in his friendship with a Russian companion and an Iraqi refugee. He describes the conflicts and points of contact in long-standing relationships with friends who remained strangers despite everything, or with strangers who became friends after all.
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