Since the end of the war, he has been looking forward to this moment, and now, at the end of May 1946, it has finally arrived: Felix von Geldern boards a ship bound for Europe, heading to Vienna. Eight years earlier, immediately after the annexation, the old Austrian family fled from National Socialism into exile in New York. And now, what is the situation in Austria after the defeat, after liberation? He quickly realizes that the jubilation in Heldenplatz was not the result of manipulation, that his former girlfriend first threw herself at Goebbels and is now with a US colonel. Following the international success of the reissue of Ernst Lothar's "Angel with the Trombone," his next major novel is now to be discovered.