The bestseller now in new spelling. Philipp Erlach has inherited his grandmother's house in the suburbs of Vienna, and the family history is now weighing on him. Arno Geiger tells it as if every day of the past is our present. He depicts the fate of Alma and Richard, who just had Ingrid in 1938 and want nothing to do with the Nazis. Of 15-year-old Peter, who runs through the bombed streets with the last Hitler Youth in 1945. Of Ingrid, who wants to start her own family with the student Peter, and of Philipp, their son. Arno Geiger brings a sad and comedic century to life.