A pair of skates is left behind in a house in East Prussia during the war days of January 1945 and ends up 60 years later in the hands of a little Polish girl who discovers them in an attic. Albert Steinky, who once owned these skates, travels to the country where he spent his childhood and youth as a nostalgia tourist after the fall of the Iron Curtain. During his journey through the former Ermland, all the former residents of his hometown Klotainen resurface in his memory: Karlchen, his little, eloquent brother. Adolf Willumeit, the oddball. The hard-of-hearing Pastor Brieskorn and the disheveled Schibulskis. Urbschat, the blacksmith, and his daughter Sophie with her fiery red hair. And also Maluck, the shadow man from the concentration camp. It is a journey filled with beautiful but also painful memories. Albert tri.