A family saga by Josef Bierbichler, which dates from 1914 to 1984 and tells a story of three generations of a Bavarian innkeeper's family.
The family of the old sea-owner belongs to the old-established ones. The Seewirt experienced the Weimar Republic and how rural life was changed by machines. Then the second world war came, the war crimes of the Nazis, which were swept under the carpet during the restoration. The restaurant by the lake witnessed everything. Now the sea-owner begins to remember.
Short after the death of his wife Theres, the Seewirt sits down with his son. The funeral feast offers occasion, his life, the great upheavals, the mistakes and missed chances to happen once again in review. It's a story full of precipices. It is the saga of a Bavarian family that exemplifies a piece of the German past.
