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The famous Austrian writer Richard Richter is planning to renovate the apartment where he spent his childhood. Behind the bookcases he finds a letter that his mother, whom he never knew, had addressed to an unknown man. This is how Richard finds out that the man he thought was his father is actually a stranger. His real father, however, may now be living in a city that has been under the constant scrutiny of the world's media in recent days due to the war that is raging there. Nevertheless, Richard decides to find out the details of his origins and, as a war correspondent, finds himself in a city under siege...

Igor Shtiks was awarded a prestigious national literary prize for his novel Eliyahu's Chair.