In his new major novel, Catalin Dorian Florescu tells the adventurous life story of Jacob Obertin from the Swabian village of Triebswetter in Romanian Banat. It is a tale of love and friendship, flight and betrayal, and how a person's capacity to love can save them above all else. Jacob's story, set between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, expands into a family epic, vividly and dynamically narrating the fate of the Obertins over 300 years, beginning with the Thirty Years' War in Lorraine.