Stefan Frey describes, through the fate of a woman, the survival, endurance, and overcoming of the colonial catastrophe, which was seamlessly and sustainably transformed into an indigenous one by their own leaders. It is the stirring, disturbing, and occasionally hopeful story of Eleonore, born in a bloody uprising, her child, and her grandchildren, who manage to navigate through the history of the country and the world, tied together by an invisibly knotted thread into the present. The self-deception of nationalist liberations, still led today by greedy, vengeful, and unbearably foolish local elites, which leads to ever new subjugations of their own population, is reflected in the defeats of individual people, who take the only freedom that is rightfully theirs: to survive and to love.