In a rather unusual sound, this novel recounts the private and political hopes of an entire century. The narrator is Natalie, a Russian translator from Berlin with Swabian roots, who is tasked with the new translation of Chekhov's play "Three Sisters." It deals with lost traditions and corrupted utopias. It explores memories of ancestors to whom connections have been severed. It reflects on the supposed salvation of so many petty-bourgeois children through education in the 1970s. It addresses social mobility. And ultimately, it captures the lostness of an entire generation, whose time has already passed by the beginning of the 21st century: superfluous people like the Lost Generation in Chekhov. "You get family and you get history, you get bitterness and you get sweetness, so that you too are not quite so lost in amnesia.".