The great epic of our time Sanditz, a small town on the edge of the republic. Old officers, civil rights activists, organ builders, tile collectors, local journalists, self-proclaimed resisters, dreamers, early retirees, children, lovers, scurrying archivists and the Wenzel family live here. Warm-hearted and multi-perspective, Lukas Rietzschel weaves the narrative of the family and the Sanditz townspeople into a panorama of German stories - from the end of the GDR to the recent present, from the occupation of the local Stasi headquarters to the struggle of a volunteer in Ukraine, from toiling away on West German construction sites to the isolated island existence during the Corona epidemic. A novel about departure and decline, the success and failure of the upheaval, friendship and family in revolutionary times, about the desire for belonging and the longing for freedom.