For five years, Enn Padrik has postponed the investigation into the



apparently religiously inspired suicides of his daughter and her



friends at a commune near Viljandi, but now he can postpone it no



longer. He must travel all over Estonia and even as far as France



interviewing anyone who might remember anything relevant.



Some of these people seem to have been waiting for him, others



refuse to talk. And little by little, a bigger and quite unexpected



picture starts to emerge. From the late 1970s through 2011, The



Reconstruction spans the lives of two generations, going from the



late 1970s through 2011, narrating the changes in the wider world



and Estonian society in particular, the transition from a world of



right and wrong to a world where most things are neither, but the



yearning for absolute truths still won’t go away.

Translated by: Adam Cullen