¿Qué buscas, lobo?

Eight years after emigrating to Germany, Ryna embarks on a tortuous journey back to the remote Belarusian village where she grew up. In just a few days, she has lost her job at a nursing home due to her alcoholism, and her grandmother Darafeia, a healer highly respected for her skill in calming quarrelsome husbands and treating infertility, has died. Her grandmother's funeral forces Ryna to confront her country's bloody past, preserved in the memories of several generations of women—unwitting heroines who never lost their conviction that, even in a land ravaged by war, life must go on. Based on firsthand accounts and exhaustive documentary research, Eva Viežnaviec rescues the everyday hardships and miracles—the arrival of television, the draining of a swamp, ancestral potions and spells—in a corner of Eastern Europe shaken by the political turbulence of the 20th century: the October Revolution, two world wars, the Nazi advance, pogroms, and forced collectivization.