Families shaken by severe rifts reach their limits. This is also true for the Amani family, which Abbas Maroufi portrays representatively. One of the sons, the communist Madjid, has fled his homeland and encounters his past as a patient in a psychiatric clinic in Aachen. A time when he and his brothers became politicized against their father's wishes: Assad joined Khomeini's organization and quickly occupied important positions, Said became a member of the Mujahideen, and Iradch, the imprisoned "enemy of the revolution," faces execution. Maroufi's style is concise. Everything is interconnected, with narrative levels seamlessly blending into one another. Just as we are following a conversation between Madjid and a fellow patient, in the next sentence we find ourselves in a car that is supposed to take the refugees back to Iran. The novel is a reflection of the revolution.