Flooding in Krumau am Kamp: three infant bodies two girls and a boy are found in the basement of the Trummler family 's farm which has long been uninhabited . The children were suffocated immediately after birth and buried on the spot . A dark reputation precedes the Trummelrs ; the word "cursed" is used more than once : after the daughter 's disappearance without a trace. The villagers have never quite forgotten the tragedy and so willOld wounds opened up when Marion Reiter