Quiet water grinds the banks. Even in a desperately stagnant backwater.
As a counter-intelligence officer in the Border Guard, her husband called the Russian occupation by its real name, and so, after the 1969 background checks, he faces punishment without regard for the needs of his family. The Mazoch family and their daughter are treated by the regime in a worker's way, when they are forced to move from Šumava to the disgrace of Aš - a town known only for its textile mills and chicanery, which is not so visible from Prague.
Every grey day here, Eliška Mazochová has dozens of opportunities to show whether she will not fail in the role of a shouting partner and an angry mother, a conscientious nurse and an obedient friend of a lady from the local royalty. In the city of oblivion, will it be enough if it relies only on these supports and decides to endure the time without the slightest way out like "still water"? Or will there come a time when she will finally summon the strength to face life and make the guilty come to the cross?
In the middle volume of a free trilogy about the clash of Axis women with the ruthless 20th century, Klára Teršová evokes another traumatised voice from a region where even foxes don't like to say goodnight. It presents the life confession of the heroine who preferred to escape the absurdity of the so-called normalisation to the formerly German cottage in Vernéřov, which we know from the novel White Spring as Wernersreuth. After all, it is never too late to learn the truth and repay the human debt, even if meddlesome history is stubbornly against it.
