I have witnessed with my own eyes that every life approaching death is growing enthusiastically. From the dusty and dangerous coal mines to the gleaming royal palaces, from the corridors representing power to the bedrooms where love and hate are entangled, the five major families from the United States, Germany, Soviet Russia, England and Wales, their very different and entangled fates are gradually revealed, magnificently showing a 20th century that we think we know, but have never felt so clearly.