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Sam Crowley vanished five years ago on his twenty-first birthday. The mystery of what happened that day sent tremors through the local community, casting suspicion on its residents and breaking apart his family. Now, on the anniversary of his disappearance, his mother Ro has returned for a memorial to remember her son. What she finds is a ghost town whose local residents have been forced out by the nearby coal mine that keeps expanding. But the pain of seeing her devastated former home is nothing compared to the torment of never finding out what happened to her son.

A woman approaching the ‘invisible years’ of middle age abandons her failing writing career to retrain as a chiropodist in the East Berlin suburb of Marzahn, once the GDR’s largest prefabricated housing estate. From her intimate vantage point at the foot of the clinic chair, she observes her clients and co-workers, listening to their stories with empathy and curiosity. Part memoir, part collective history, Katja Oskamp’s love letter to the inhabitants of Marzahn is a tender reflection on life’s progression and our ability to forge connections in the unlikeliest of places.