The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary Germans: Helmut a young photographer in Berlin in the 1930s who uses his craft to express his patriotic fervour; Lore a twelve-year-old girl who in 1945 guides her young siblings across a devastated Germany after her Nazi parents are seized by the Allies; & fifty years later Micha a young teacher obsessed with what his loving grandfather did in the war struggling to deal with the past of his family & his country.