Veit Kolbe spends a few months at Mondsee, beneath the Drachenwand, where he meets two young women. However, Veit is a soldier on leave, wounded in Russia. What Margot and Margarete share with him is his hope that life will begin again someday. It is 1944, the world war is lost, but how much longer will it last? Arno Geiger tells of Veit's nightmares, of the 'Brazilian' who dreams of returning to Rio de Janeiro, of the strange normalcy in this village in Austria - and of love. An outstanding novel about the individual and the power of history, about the most personal and the war, about the dead and the survivors.