A Child in War: In early 1945, twelve-year-old Luisa Norff must flee from the bombed city of Kiel to the countryside with her mother and older sister. The estate of her brother-in-law Vinzent, an SS officer, becomes an unexpected space of freedom: No more school, and while Allied bombers fly eastward and more and more refugees arrive, the dreamer wanders through the forests, trying to understand life beyond the fires: What is this unease when she sees the young milkman Walter, who are the prisoners at the monastery lake, where has her sister Billie suddenly disappeared to, and from whom does the wig maker actually get the hair? And when exactly what all the women fear in those days happens to her at a party for Vinzent's birthday, Luisa collapses under the weight of the inexplicable. Ralf Rothmann's great work, in five.