Is there no place in the world?
Leave it to regret, leave it to forgiveness?
No, all we are left with is surrender,
But I hate this word.
——Milton's "Paradise Lost"
This article is the first part of the trilogy "Red Snow - Pale Wind - Dark Rain". On the Eastern Front battlefield in 1941, the brutal war continued, and in the distant and peaceful Berlin, ruthless conspiracies were also surging undercurrents. The German military doctor who came to the battlefield to follow that man, the sniper who left his hometown to resist his own life, and the brother who did not hesitate to let himself be twisted by the hand of fate for the sake of his brother, how can they survive in this era of irrationality, and how can they hold on to the only light in their hearts?