The Sum of It All--'The Twilight' is about a small child beginning to develop his awareness of the world around him during the early days of the Second World War. The saga begins with an old man dying of cancer in a hospital. As he drifts in and out of a coma, he slips back and forth between the present reality and his past life. Now in his last moments he relives the events, but in the context of an adult's mind and understanding. In his unconsciousness during the hallucination he melts back into the young boy that he once was in his formative years. A strange dream that he experienced so long ago resurfaces during the stressful moments of his ordinary life. It doesn't take him long to lose his childhood innocence when he comes in contact with a violent death and experiences a new odd emotion. 'Hate'. For the first time in his life during his trip to Germany he comes in contact with bigotry and some dark secrets of the Nazi regime. The Saga takes the reader through the child/man experiences during the Soviet invasion of his native land and subsequent deportation to Nazi Germany and Dresden. The realistic presentation, illustrates how such events, can change a child's character.