Summary

The Chicken Pox epidemic ends, and the men are to be moved to the Berlin suburb of Spandau. The men tell Richard that they prefer it in Spandau because it’s more normal. There are children and such.

Richard marks Totensonntag, a German day during advent dedicated to remembering the dead. He cleans his parents graves. When he explains to the men why everything is closed on Totensonntag, he watches the mood drastically change and they remember, in their own minds, all the people they have lost.

Life goes on for the men at Spandau, and they work on their asylum applications. There is a rumor shared by a sympathetic Senator to Richard that the government has been instructed to be as strict as possible when processing the applications.

The men look for work, and try to make their lives as regular as...