'She had decided not to think about the past anymore: the places, the people in her homeland and certainly not about what had happened back then in that summer of 1946, when she was eight years old and everything began.' 85-year-old Inge Sundermann reluctantly accepts an invitation to a class reunion in the Lüneburg Heath. The place of her childhood is associated with a terrible guilt that she once burdened herself with as a child and buried deep within herself. But the past now catches up with Inge in the form of the diary entries of Helga von Borcke, a woman who began writing down the chronicle of this idyllic landscape in the shadow of Bergen-Belsen as early as 1946. 8-year-old Inge finds the body of a young woman in the forest on her way to violin lessons. A tragic trial of lies, cover-ups and inhumane crimes takes its course, which haunts Inge again many decades later with full force. The idyllic Lüneburg Heath becomes the scene of war crimes, whose perpetrators still live undetected in their families decades later. On two time levels, the new novel by Anja Jonuleit tells of the horrific events in the Lüneburg Heath and their cover-up, of old Nazi networks - and of two women (1946 and 2023) who are not willing to let the past rest. A stirring novel that gets deep under your skin, nourished by reality. With an afterword by the author about the underlying facts. Biography Anja Jonuleit, born in Bonn in 1965, is a translator and interpreter. She lived and worked in New York, Bonn, Rome, Damascus and Munich. In 1994, she returned to Lake Constance with her family. She is the mother of four children.