Free willing

In the tension between the opposing poles of war and music, Frei willig brings readers closer to a lesser-known chapter of recent Swiss history: the participation of young Swiss volunteers in Hitler's Waffen-SS. An unopened letter lies in Valerie Bachmann's desk. She found it in her father Walter Grimm's study. The sender's name on the envelope evoked unresolved memories from her childhood, making it impossible for her to resist secretly taking it with her. However, she only finds the courage to open the letter after meeting Trevor Quinn. The American music journalist suspects her father of having released counterfeit CDs through his music label. In reality, the piano recordings were not performed by the pianist Clara Howes, Walter Grimm's second wife, but by other artists whose recordings he had from ve.