Wilhelm Necker boards a train headed to Paris from Berlin believing that by departing he can escape the all too heavy burden of the past. As a Colonel in Nazi Germany''''s Abwehr, Necker''''s debt to history is great: that he survived both the liquidation of the espionage agency and the Nazi terror is no small testament to his intelligence and his luck. Boarding the train amidst the October fog and billowing exhaust his departure promises to him a brighter future under foreign suns.