Yanvar' 1939 goda. Germaniya. Strana, zataivshaya dykhaniye. Nikogda yeshche u smerti ne bylo stol'ko raboty. I budet yeshche bol'she. Mat' vezet devyatiletnyuyu Lizel' Meminger i yeye mladshego brata k priyemnym roditelyam pod Myunkhen, potomu chto ikh ottsa bol'she net - yego uneslo dykhaniyem chuzhogo i strannogo slova -kommunist-, i v glazakh materi devochka vidit strakh pered takoy zhe sud'boy. V doroge smert' naveshchayet mal'chika i vpervyye zamechayet Lizel'. Tak devochka okazyvayetsya na Khimmel'-shtrasse - Nebesnoy ulitse.