The war is over? Maybe. But… not for those whose fates it has trampled so harshly and mercilessly. Germany has recovered and is prospering? Maybe— for those, who, according to the deep symbolism of Bell’s novel, accepted the “buffalo communion.” They are not always criminals, and the hands of their ancient enemies—the “lambs”—are often also stained by war. However, it is they—filled with a physical thirst for life—who want to forget the past. And the forever inconvenient “lambs,” obsessed with memory, won’t let them do it!
But on the day of the magnate Heinrich Femeier’s eightieth birthday, many masks will be thrown off…