After an overworked twenty-something loses her job as a result of burnout and slips into a depression she tries to fight with alcohol, an unexpected inheritance that allows her to restart her career seems like salvation – until she discovers it's a questionable Nazi-era fortune that confronts her with her family's dark past.

Never before has so much been inherited as in recent years. But where does all this money come from? Often it comes from a time when parents or grandparents were actively involved in World War II and profited from it. How do the heirs deal with this burden? They are part of a generation that may be the last to be close enough to the events to come to terms with them.

"Bloodguilt" (working title) tells the story of one such heiress, who faces her family past at high speed and with black humor and in the end has to make a radical decision to break the silence.