sentences:  When the beautiful, rich Frau Edeltraut von Tannenberg comes to the professors household and announces she is Annika’s long lost mother, Annika is delighted.Her mother takes her to Spittal, the family's estate in Germany, and she meets her brother Hermann, her uncle Oswald, and her cousin Gudrun, but she doesn’t enjoy it.The mansion is derelict and gloomy, the walls are crumbling, and the paint peeling.