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Three generations of a family have the same name. What kind of family secrets and emotional undercurrents are hidden behind this? In an ancient house in the forest next to a cemetery, when the sleepwalking Mrs. Baige calls "Franz", who is she calling, her lover who disappeared during World War II, her only son who depends on each other for life, or her grandson who is of mixed Chinese and German descent? The novel "My Franz" by Hai Rao, a writer living in Germany, begins with the meeting of two women who are married far away. Wu Jialing and Xia Yihong from Chongqing hit it off in distant Germany and became friends. As the relationship deepened, Wu Jialing, who was poor and unable to have a child, began to distance himself from Xia Yihong, who was wealthy and unexpectedly had a child, because of jealousy, but returned to her again and again because of her kindness. When Xia Yihong was struggling in pain because of her husband's relationship with her mother-in-law, Wu Jialing also had doubts about her marriage because she discovered her husband's secret. The hand of fate hasn't stopped playing yet. Xia Yihong's beauty disappeared unexpectedly, her husband was imprisoned in a mental hospital, and her son Franz was adopted by Wu Jialing. The interweaving of themes such as cultural conflict, the subtleties of human nature, historical pain, emotion and dignity, memory and redemption support the story of new immigrants belonging to the 21st century.