Synopsis
A germanist from Comenius University in Bratislava, Jozef Tancer is seeking out near-defunct german dialects which have been moulded into unique forms within the territory of current Slovakia for more than 700 years. His scientifi c interest increasingly becomes more and more personal. By means of unknown, suppressed stories, he learns about the dramatic events that were introduced by World War II and subsequently by the principle of collective guilt into the present-day lives of the so-called Carpathian germans in Slovakia.