For five years, Enn Padrik has postponed the investigation into the
apparently religiously inspired suicide of his daughter and her friends
at a commune near Viljandi, but now he cannot do it any longer. He has
to travel all over Estonia and even to France to talk to those who might
remember anything relevant. Some of these people seem to have been
waiting for him, others refuse to talk. And little by little, a bigger
and quite unexpected picture starts to emerge.
From the late 1970s through 2011, the book spans the lives of two
generations, the changes in the world at large and the Estonian society
in particular, the transition from a world of rights and wrongs to a
world where most things are neither, but the yearning for absolute
truths still won't go away.