The narrator returns in the autumn of his life to the abandoned house by the Inn, to the places of his childhood in the Lower Engadin. He finds traces and memories of people, landscapes, and scents. Daily life unfolds before him: school, arguments, and reconciliations. Important people are back: the father, a railway worker and insatiable reader, the mother, a passionate letter writer, friends, teachers, the hard life, and the sometimes eccentric grandfathers. The author avoids linear chronology. Focused on places, themes, and individuals, the story of youth comes together piece by piece. Memory and imagination alternate. In the tradition of a powerful oral storytelling culture passed down from generation to generation, Oscar Peer creates a unique atmosphere of everyday life in the Engadin of the 1930s and 1940s.