A Lesser Day

In The Freezing Studios And Working-class Flats Of Kreuzberg, We Meet Sabine From Across The Bleak Courtyard, A Sturdy Mother Of Four Who Disappears One Day And Whose Adolescent Daughters Gradually Grow Wild; Martin, The Charismatic Boy With An Alcoholic Stepfather And His Own Hidden Streak Of Cruelty; Ivo, A Croatian Car Mechanic Who Returns Home To Fight In The War As The Landladys Nine-year-old Son Sets About Throwing Rocks At The Windowpanes Of His Workshop. When The Narrator Travels To York To Attend Her Fathers Funeral Shortly After November 9, 1989, The Day The Berlin Wall Fell, A Period Begins In Which Her Hold On Reality Grows Increasingly Tenuous. Hiding Away In Her Studio With Her Fathers Journals, Her Paintings Building Up Inch By Inch In A Fruitless Attempt To Come To Terms With Human Mortality, She Sets About Deciphering Her Fathers Encoded Script.