Uoči svetkovine

Mrs. Kranz, a painter who does not distinguish colors at night, is preparing to paint the village at night for the first time. The bell ringer and his apprentice want to ring the bells, but someone stole them. The fox is looking for chicken eggs for her young, and Mr. Schramm, a former lieutenant in the National People's Army, finds more reasons against life than against smoking. No one saw who broke into the Native House, however, the village archive is open. However, the nocturnals are not obsessed with what was stolen from the archive, but with what escaped from it. Old stories, legends and fairy tales follow people from house to house. They are assembled into a novel about one long night, into a mosaic of life in a village that was once a city, where newcomers and natives, the living and the dead, artisans, pensioners and noble outlaws in the jerseys of local clubs meet. They all want to do something else before the morning, on the eve of the festival.