Boy reading book and watching woman hand wash clothes outside

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

In a famous Havana cigar factory, Gricel La Lectora makes her way to her rostrum and microphone, where she regales the workers with a specially curated mix of interesting articles, novels, poetry and diversions. Gricel is one of the last people to hold this storied position.

Women washing clothes.

A couple of women are washing outside.

A regular old bloke does his laundry

Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.