A love far too great to be told just once, a book that is like a journey: into the Salpêtrière, the Parisian psychiatric hospital where Sigmund Freud was a student of Charcot; into the winter forest, from which a bored princess wants to rescue a prince; into the city of change, where entire houses wander through the city as if they were movable property. Ten chapters, ten times the story of Marie and Jan. "Katharina Hartwell writes so well that she must have set a new world record in literary decathlon." - a magical novel.