Vladan Borojevic's father, a former officer in the Yugoslav People's Army, is supposed to have died in the civil war. But when Vladan googles the name of his father, he unexpectedly discovers a dark family secret.

Not only is Vladan's father still alive, but he is also on the run for war crimes. Unwilling to believe what he has read, Vladan sets off around the Balkan's in search of his father and the truth.

Goran Vojnovic exploded onto the Slovenian literary scene in 2008 with his debut novel Southern Scum Go Home!. The novel became an instant bestseller - it is in fact one of the bestselling Slovenian novels in recent decades. The novel reaped all the major national literary awards, including the Kresnik Award for best novel of the year and the PreSeren Fund Award, Slovenia's highest award for artistic achievement, His second novel, Yugoslavia, My Fatherland (2012), also received the Kresnik Award, was adapted for stage and translated into thirteen languages. His third novel, The Fig Tree (Figa, 2016), once again received the Kresnik. Vojnovic is only the third person to ever receive three Kresnik Awards in its 27-year history, and no one has won it more than three times; he is also the first and only writer to have received the award for all his novels.

The story of the Borojevic family strings and juxtaposes images of the Balkans past and present, but mainly deals with the tragic fates of people who managed to avoid the bombs, but were unable to escape the war. When Vladan Borojevic googles the name of his father Nedeljko, a former officer in the Yugoslav People's Army, supposedly killed in the civil war after the decay of Yugoslavia, he unexpectedly discovers a dark family secret which recollects the events of 1991 when he first heard the military term deployment and his idyllic childhood came to a sudden end.