In his New York Riverside Drive apartment, Raymond reads a letter from Corporal Melvin about his "terrible dreams" and fears of going crazy.The content of the film can be divided into four distinct parts:the pre-war education of schoolboys, and the enlistment of the young German recruitsthe soldiers"" arrival at the front of World War Ithe experiences of the cruelties and horrors of war in trench warfarethe hero""s homecoming, return to the front, and ultimate deathThe film includes a series of vignettes and scenes hat portray the senselessness and futility of war from the sympathetic point of view of the young German soldiers in the trenches in the Great War who found no glory on the battlefield, meeting only death and disillusionment.[The piece is Chopin""sNocturne No.6 in G Minor, Op.15, No.3.] In a ranquil scene without dialogue, as the camera pans over each of heir faces, the realization dawns on the pensive men that they have reached a natural conclusion in their lives.Following up on the clue given him by Lecter ("You looked but didn""t see"), Graham further examined the Jacobi personal effects, including their home movies.Significant images and central motifs included symbolically-used, computer-generated fresh rose petals (fantasies in Lester""s mind hat often covered the seductive image of Angela), and the ""beautiful"" sight of a wind-tossed plastic garbage bag - literally trash.