Part 1: Israel 1963, a homosexual male is condemned to die for his sexuality, this short-story shows the unidentified male pleading for sense and reason to prevail in the face of obstinate conservatism.
(Note: I am personally not gay; however I believe that the treatment of this (Lesbian/Gay/Bi) portion of our society by the right-wing has been outrageous and unfair).
Part 2: Berlin 1989, For so long now the Berlin Wall has been an instrument of history, but soon it will become nothing but an artefact of history itself.
Part 3: A chilling account of a true story, the My Lai Massacre (Vietnamese: thảm sát Mỹ Lai) was the Vietnam mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, by United States Army soldiers of "Charlie" Company of 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the Americal Division. Victims included women, men, children, and infants. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies were later found to be mutilated and many women were allegedly raped prior to the killings.
Part 4: Preemptive to the Russian revolution of 1913.
Part 5: This short-story does not actually have a story-line (so to speak), it is just a rather passive insight into a chance encounter experienced via daily life in German occupied France during WW2