Billiards at half past nine. Belle G.

Architect Henry Femel, is eighty years old. The anniversary is a good reason to take the results of the life.

His victory is the victory of an unknown stranger in the competition for the construction of the abbey of St. Anthony, promised a complete and happy life... but in the end - deceived expectations...

The wife of Henry is contained in the privileged hospital for mentally ill, The youngest son of Otto, who, in his youth, crossed the side of the executioners, ready to drown the world in the blood, became a stranger in his family...

in this day, which became a turning point in the fate of the heroes of the novel, the entire tragic history of Germany of the XX was focused centuries...