An incantatory catalog of cultural artifacts either lost to time or never realized. A boarder for two years following a national funeral Mirabeau is removed from the Pantheon and transferred to the cemetery of Clamart when his pornographic novels are discovered A photograph taken by Hessling on Christmas night 1943 of a young woman nailed alive to the village gate of Novimgorod Hessling asks his friend Wolfgang Borchert to develop the film look at the photograph and destroy it The Beautifu