Austria. One evening at dusk in the early 1940s, a father and daughter arrive in a village in Upper Austria on a horse-drawn cart, with their trunks and furniture, and settle into an abandoned farmhouse allocated to them. The traumatized girl clutches a bunch of red lilacs in her fist. Ferdinand Goldberger, section leader of the Nazi party, had to flee his home village, but his crimes will weigh heavily on his descendants. With his sumptuous novel Red Lilac, Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker (born 1982) left a significant mark on German-language literature and literature in general. Already a classic.