Adventures and brutal pranks in a small village in Czechoslovakia are told by the author from his naive youthful perspective, until the end of the Second World War bursts apart the life of the German speaking population.

In the period of Russian occupation in 1945, the Sudetenland Germans are expelled from their homes, never to return. His family, like many millions of refugees, then continue life in war ravaged Germany.  

This personal account gives a glimpse both of an innocent time of Bohemian youth and of a horrific history repressed for decades.