novel about the transience of time and invitation of human lives

The old house on the main street just below the square in a small town in the Highlands seemed to have its own memory. The fates of its inhabitants have been entered in its walls since 1695 and the house has a lot to tell. So he tells. Especially at the end of the nineteenth century, when it began to operate a knitting workshop, from which later a large and still functioning factory. About the courageous young man Josef Vlkovský, who opened a grocery store here in 1925. About a steep ascension of the trade, opening of wholesale, but also about war restraints, family tragedy, nationalization and confiscation of property. The house tells its own story, intertwining with the tragic fate of the director of the Knop textile factory, and continues through the new beginnings and changes in the 1990s to the present. Time passes, the house with the "U Wolf" shop remains. Through the student Anežka, the present will give her a reconciled hand with the past.

Markéta Hejkalová in the background of the story of the history of one house gradually reveals the strong fates of the population in the middle of our country.