A photographic portrait of the headquarters of the company IG-Farben, a presently unoccupied building, which produced Zyklon B gas and later housed the administration of the American army of occupation between 1948 and 1995. Loewy, the photographer prowled around the empty monument, guided by chance occurences and by the light to tell the story in images of a bizarre haunted castle of modern times.

These brief diary notes, from 15 June-8 September 1942, record the struggle of Hauser (b. 1901, deported from Vienna to Łódź in October 1941) to obtain food for herself and her six-year-old son, the callousness of her husband who keeps the little there is for himself, and the intolerable hunger and exhaustion.