As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

I first get to know Anna-Maria, the protagonist of this text, verbally through my brother Stefan before I see her for the first time. The two of them have spent a lot of time together in recent months and Anna-Maria has also visited our home a few times. However, only my brother knows her own home in the Waldviertel region. The young woman lives on a family farm with around 28 people, which includes various companies, a school and a farm. The PAN project was founded in 1995 and is the oldest community in Austria. The members live a Christian life and are almost exclusively self-sufficient. The community building, which Anna-Maria regards as her childhood home, smells of freshly baked bread every week. She also associates her home with the smell of a barn, as animals are kept here and she makes sure the chickens have everything they need, for example. (She is worried about the hawk.) The special way of life in the community gives Anna-Maria a sense of security, as they can feed themselv