He is actually specialized in obituaries and writes for the radio's calendar segment. However, a new assignment for a report about the village of the 13 villages takes an older journalist back to the land of Innerfern, which has been the starting point of Gerhard Köpf's literary cosmos since 1983 and has since been unfolded in numerous novels and stories. The journey, resembling a long walk, not only geographically leads from the capital to the province but also temporally back to the early 1950s, when the republic was still in its infancy. Through the memories of various people and characters from the journalist's childhood, a colorful and diverse picture of a rural community emerges, where everything is closely intertwined: the lost illusion alongside hopeful dreams for the future, and the shadows of the past.