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Monika Helfer continues what she began with her bestseller "Die Bagage": her own family story.

A man with a prosthetic leg, an absentee, a widower, a retiree, a literature lover. Monika Helfer circles around her father's life and recounts her own childhood and youth. She describes the ample space and the library in the war victim rehabilitation center in the mountains, the poverty, and the cramped living conditions. She shares what she knows about her father and what she can learn about him. With great authenticity, a novel emerges about growing up in difficult circumstances, a search for one's own origins. A memoir that gently speaks of existential themes and remains painful in its recollection. "Yes, everything turned out well. In a malicious way, everything turned out well.".