How does the political orientation of institutions impact the lives of individuals? And how do institutions choose to represent and communicate scientific and historical facts? Through an interconnected web of narratives, these questions frame the diptych, Daphne and Thomas. Thomas is the son of a protestant pastor and was unable to attend art school during German Democratic Republic because of his religious background. Now, in his late 50’s he is still haunted by that trauma. His daughter, Daphne, is a young taxidermist and finds herself locked inside one of the dioramas of The Museum of Natural History in Berlin. By chance, a British novelist who has come to Berlin to research the museum’s archive, comes to Daphne’s rescue.