When I returned home, I found a letter in front of the door. Strange – who even writes letters nowadays? Then I noticed the stamp of a law firm on the envelope.

Sender – Alice Schneider, my great-aunt whom I hadn’t seen in almost thirty years and had nearly forgotten about, since she had spent most of her life abroad.

I slowly opened the envelope and began to read.

It turned out that my great-aunt had passed away a month earlier and had left me all her possessions – an apartment in the city center, a country house, and all her savings.