In a gripping exchange of letters written in the closing years of the 20th century, two men linked by history though separated by time and space struggle to come to terms with the signal event of their time, the Holocaust. Paul Friedhoff, a German Jew born in the Rhineland-Palatinate region in 1907, and Dr. Emil Georg Sold, a Catholic born in the same region in 1920, struck up a correspondence decades after the end of the war. Despite the obstacle of never having seen one another, the two grew to become very good friends, and the correspondence became an integral part of their lives. In remembering and attempting to understand the Holocaust, Friedhoff and Sold hope to save future generations from enduring what their generation has endured. And in that way, their letters are not so much about the past as they are about the future.