Centroeuropa

Prussia, somewhere near the River Oder, on the Polish border, one winter of the first decades of the nineteenth century. A man arrives from afar with the aim of cultivating the hard soil of the region, and unloads from his cart a coffin carrying the body of his wife, who didn't survive the journey. As he digs her grave in the frozen earth he makes a surprising discovery, the frozen body of a Prussian hussar soldier. That was the first body. When you find a body buried on your own land, in your own soil, you suspect it is not alone. Anyone who finds a body is fearful or imagines other bodies waiting silently for their turn. The story starts with the discovery of the first soldier's body, the story of a continent forged by war and the story of the mysterious narrator Redo Hauptshammer.