Eva is in her early forties when she receives a call from the man who played the role of her father during her childhood before he seemingly disappeared forever: Vito Anania. He is dying and wants to see Eva one last time. She travels by train from South Tyrol across Italy to the far south. In her mind, her entire childhood in South Tyrol unfolds: she grew up in the shadow of the political upheavals of a region that was a pawn of threatening alliances for three decades and then finally dared to embark on autonomy. Yet, even more than the political turmoil, Eva's childhood was shaped by the love of her mother, who was never given anything in life. The novel of a province without a homeland and a girl without a father.