A very touching document. When ten-year-old Uli is sent to boarding school in April 1940, his father writes him a letter every Sunday: loving, encouraging, and sometimes admonishing. And the son responds weekly. For nearly seven years. The everyday realities of war, as well as the joys and struggles of a growing child, are reflected in these moving letters, which reveal Hans Fallada from a previously unknown side: as a father who knows how to convincingly present himself as a friend.