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1941: A German pianist arrives in Japan as the Ambassador's guest, where she encounters the enigmatic journalist and Soviet spy Richard Sorge, who is covertly channelling communications between Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan back to the Kremlin. It's only a matter of time till his arrest and execution by the Japanese. Telling Sorge's story retrospectively through the testimony of those around him, Isabel Kreitz explores these true events with her sensitive, engaging pencil art, both figuratively and literally, to expose a less told side of WWII.