Despite a host of characteristics that might lead one to assume that medicine in Germany is practiced on a more enlightened basis than it is in, say, the United States, it is still customary there to keep a patient's impending death secret from him or her. In this story, two actresses are friends and one of them has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The well one feels that her friend should know that her life is ending and does something about it. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi