Paul Kuehne, Steinway & Sons’ Concert and Artists manager in Berlin, and his wife, run across Berlin to check if Steinway & Sons stores are intact. After being captured, questioned and soon released by Russians, Paul Kuehne and his wife find Steinway & Sons store building on Lutzowstrasse burnt out on the inside, but still standing (it has been used as a Nazi office, and someone has set it on fire). Steinway & Sons employees, Mrs. Krunitz and Miss Garbow, borrow a typewriter and set up an office in Paul Kuehne’s house. They recreate from memory the list of people who have rented Steinway & Sons pianos – and then visit every borrower, asking them to pay for the instruments or to return them. The returned pianos are temporarily stored in a former coal shop on Suarezstrasse.