Dadens is Romansh and means inside, inward. The monastery village is nestled deep in the Grisons Alps. The boarding school students refer to Dadens as the village of non-swimmers by the lake without a bottom. Various life realities have always collided here, such as those of the Benedikt entrepreneurial dynasty from the lowlands and the Cavegn mountain farming family. The novel takes the reader to Zurich and Venice, reflecting Swiss stories from three generations and concluding during the days of the COVID outbreak in Northern Italy.