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The village of Fistenfeld, located in northeastern Germany, has a long history and has witnessed the vicissitudes of the Thirty Years' War, the Kingdom of Prussia, World War II, and the division and reunification of East and West Germany. Today, the older generation in the village is dying. When autumn arrives, villagers light bonfires, burn witch dummies and sing and dance to celebrate the traditional festival "Anna Day". In the 24 hours before the festival, the story continues: the ferryman who drove the ferry has just died; the 90-year-old female painter once again went out to try to depict the night in the village; a girl named Anna ran around the village at night, accidentally met two mysterious men, and bumped into the experimenter. A former East German lieutenant who attempted suicide; the former East German secret police now devotes all his enthusiasm to raising bantam chickens, and a female fox intends to come out of the hole to steal eggs for her cubs... Beautiful and bizarre legends and historical memories are interspersed, calling us into the epic of the village.

Grandpa said that if I wear the hat he made for me, I can become a powerful magician in the non-aligned countries; my aunt is nicknamed "Typhoon" and can move faster than anyone else and can race Carl Lewis; "Walrus" accidentally discovered that his wife was cheating on him, and what made him even more furious was that they actually broke his game record in his bedroom! The war broke all this. The little boy Alexander still cannot understand the meaning of war and firmly believes that he can prevent the end and death of all things. He met the little girl Asiya and played a game among the soldiers in a daze. A drowned person cannot rise again and ask where the handkerchief is, a lost love cannot return to its original state, a smoke shop owner who already exists cannot be born yet, and a bullet that has been shot into the throat cannot fly back into the barrel of a gun. But years later, Alexander is still looking for his Asya.