In 2007, journalist Sascha Battyany (b. 1973), a descendant of a noble Hungarian family, learns that his great-aunt, Countess Margit Thyssen-Battyany, was involved in the Rechnitz massacre, where 180 Hungarian Jews were killed in March 1945. Unraveling the tangle of family history, he encounters another mystery and seeks its solution. The search for truth and family history raise questions that are relevant to everyone: what impact do the events that happened seventy years ago have on us? Do what our parents and grandparents did—or didn’t do—leave an imprint on our lives? What would we do in such circumstances? In 2016, the book was nominated for the Swiss Book Prize, and in 2018 it was a finalist for the Ryszard Kapuscinski Prize, which is awarded in Warsaw for the best book in the genre of literary reportage.