When one's own daughter becomes a murderer. Sabine can no longer bear it. Her mother, who constantly monitors and controls her out of a misguided sense of love. Who dictates what she should do, feel, and think. Even after Sabine has moved out, her mother is always present; she cannot escape her grip. Until Sabine ultimately sees only one possible way out: she must free herself. Her mother must die. A psychological page-turner with great gripping power. On a Christmas day, she sees her chance. Or did her mother forget to extinguish the flickering candles on the Advent wreath? Herbert Dutzler furiously leads the reader deeper from page to page into the destructive thought world of a young woman who has only one goal: to take revenge - and in the process, she increasingly struggles to distinguish between good and evil, senseless vengeance and necessary detachment.