Public prosecutor Rosalie is in her mid-thirties and she has the world, her life and her neuroses under control – or so she thinks. When her father suddenly disappears, she sets out in search of him and re-turns to a place that is more dangerous for her than anywhere else: her childhood.
When Rosalie was five, everything was simple: the world was an evil place but her father was there to save it, with assistant Rosalie always at his side.
Thirty years later, the world has not become a better place, but Rosalie knows that her father’s private investigations against neighbours, local politicians or the US government are not going to save it. But when Rosalie returns to her parents' house after her father’s disappearance and finds herself surrounded by files containing supposedly conclusive proof, she starts to wonder whether this time her father might not really be on the trail of something hot – and is surprised at how the once so annoying neighbour’s son could turn into such an attractive, assertive man …
Traudl Bünger’s pacy, complex and forceful debut is all about the desire to understand and change the world. About a father who causes a family rift as a result of this desire. And about a daughter who fights for his love and realizes when it’s already too late that fathers are not heroes.
