Berlin and whole Germany rises from ruins. The burns are still smoking, but people are trying to start again. Despite the nightmares, everyone is trying to cope with the past.

Words and miracles are a book about Klinger's family with an ancient bookstore tradition. The young woman Ruth tries to resurrect the Klinger bookstore to a new life. He was founded by her father, burnt down in the war, and she is working hard on his renewal.

They were left with his son Petřík, still optimistic sister -in -law ruth and mother Elizabeth, who lost her husband and son in the war and retreated into seclusion. On the background of just divided Berlin and the fighting between the occupation powers, everyday human stories take place.

The girl Lore, who stood from their door, hides a painful secret. Beautiful Rosa falls in love with the brother of her disappeared husband, it is a dangerous and complicated relationship, as well as all the war mixed. Ruth, Rosa and Lore together build bookstores.

When everyone starts to flourish, the impoverished husband Ruth, who unexpectedly returns from the prison camp, becomes a impoverished husband in the door.

In Berlin, however, there is an unprecedented flourishing. And Lore gets a revolutionary idea of ​​giving a bookstore a new direction.