Escaping postwar Europe, a visionary architect comes to America to rebuild his life, his career, and his marriage. On his own in a strange new country, he settles in Pennsylvania, where a wealthy and prominent industrialist recognises his talent.
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(a Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp who immigrates to the United States)
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(László's wife, a journalist and Holocaust survivor of the Dachau concentration camp)
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(a wealthy, handsome, snobbish industrialist who becomes László's primary client, but is envious of his artistic creativity)
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(László's orphaned teenage niece, who has become mute after surviving the Holocaust, also at Dachau)
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(a furniture store owner in Philadelphia and László's cousin, who immigrated to America before the war and is more assimilated into the culture)
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(László's friend in Carrara, an Italian anarchist who fought against Mussolini)
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