Heinrich Böll

"A tourist spots a fisherman napping in his boat and tells him what he could achieve if he spent more time fishing, but it's the tourist who ultimately learns something"--

The narrator looks at the life of a struggling war widow named Leni Pfeiffer, exploring her effort to prevent the demolition of her Cologne apartment building and her role in a countercultural group rebelling against Germany's past under the Nazis and future under capitalism.