It is a team with two heads, two temporalities, several tempos which sweep the 20th and 21st centuries through multiple characters, more or less sympathetic.
For the main ones, Ilse Küsser and Simon Ungar, we immediately get to know the first.
And this, at the moment when, in blue jogging pants in her kitchen in the former East Berlin, the former native of interwar Czechoslovakia, receives an envelope covered with crossed out addresses - Bratislava, Vejprty, Dresden .
In this missive, finally arriving at its destination, a photo of herself taken in her youth.
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We meet our second “hero” at the Vienna station, where he has just arrived after booking a ticket on a whim following two simultaneous disappointments.
First, his dismissal in exchange for a large check from the Czech billionaire who has just bought the newspaper where he had worked for seven years as production manager without ever having learned the trade, without skills...
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