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Founded in the early 1940s, the network around the magazine Der Kreis (The Circle) was the only gay organisation to survive the Nazi regime. It blossomed during the post-war years into an internationally renowned underground club. Legendary masked balls at the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich provided 800 visitors from all over Europe with a secret and safe space to act out their "otherness" in a self-determined way. It is there that timid teacher Ernst Ostertag falls in love with drag star Röbi Rapp.