The War Never Ended

Christian Wolff, an Austrian officer during World War I, returns home to Vienna a broken man. His marriage falls apart, he becomes an alcoholic and drug addict. He becomes friends with a fellow officer, Alfred, who was treated by Dr. Ernst Simmel, friend and colleague to Sigmund Freud. Simmel is able to help him and he starts a new life. He is then thrown into the politics of growing antisemitism and the rise of Adolf Hitler. H eventually flees to England before the Anschluss.