Chapter 22-24 Summary

Helga and the narrator discuss how the attic is not a fit place for a nation of two. They discuss getting a hotel. Before they go, Helga says she has a surprise for him. Helga reveals that she has a suitcase filled with all the narrator's old manuscripts and almost every heartfelt word ever written by the narrator. They reminisce and read some of his old poetry, and then the narrator thinks to ask her how it she happened to find all this stuff. Helga says that when she went to West Berlin, she went to the old theater they used to perform in and inquired about him. Nobody remembered him, but someone remembered that there was a trunk stashed away with the narrator's name on it. Inside, Helga found all of his life's work.

Helga and the narrator proceed to...