Andreas Egger was four years old when his life in the mountains began. His mother had died. His uncle took him in only because he brought money. Egger knew no love, only blows. He grew up to be a quiet but strong man. The story is about the simple life of this simple man. How he accepted what he could not change. About his love for the mountains. And for the woman who could only give him her love for a short time. He looked over the hill and sobbed loudly. He knelt in the snow and saw the place where his house had stood. "Marie! Marie!!" He called her name into the silence and knew that no one could hear him. The moon was shining. The Austrian Robert Seethaler (born 1966) is an award-winning writer and screenwriter. His novels "The Tobacconist" (2012) and "A Whole Life" (2014) became major successes.