This is a family story that covers thirty years in the life of the Freytag family (narrated by the grandson, Robert). When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "economic miracle" by producing garden gnomes. Klaus, Robert's father, wants to become a writer. He marries Gisela who almost immediately gets pregnant with Robert - but the marriage doesn't work. Both parents abandon the child, and Robert goes on living with both pairs of grand parents. While his father belongs to the 1968 generation that rebels against their fathers he falls in love with the neighbor's's daughter Laura.
—Around the Bend
2004
—The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
1972
—The Good Neighbor
2022
—The Nest
2020
—That Evening Sun
2009
—Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything
2023
—The Kindness of Strangers
2019
—Game of Love
2022
—September
1987
—Igby Goes Down
2002
—Ashes in the Snow
2018
—Ali and Nino
2016
