The figures of Adelheid Duvanel are named Alois, Georg, or Taddea. They sit at the kitchen table, watching the snowflakes and feeling their coldness in their hearts. They awkwardly prepare for a journey that takes them just to the neighboring street. Duvanel observes people in exceptional states with microscopic precision, during everyday activities and just before their downfall: unloved children, disappointed wives, deceitful husbands with glaciated hearts, shady good-for-nothings, and eccentric individuals barricaded in solitude. In her narrative mini-biographies, she brings both average citizens and outsiders into focus, whose existence suddenly breaks in from the center—most often precisely when they encounter other people. With affection, atmospheric density, and sometimes even startled by her characters, Adelheid Duvanel creates a literary work.