What do we really know about our parents? Usually much less than we think. And sometimes nothing at all. Fifteen-year-old Kim has never seen her father when she is sent to him by her mother for the summer holidays. The strange man turns out to be not only quite odd but also the most unsuccessful salesman in the world. However, when she helps him sell his terrible awnings in the cutthroat door-to-door business, the lives of father and daughter change forever. A book about growing up and aging, about the secrets in our families, about guilt and responsibility, and the orange-yellow flicker of summer evenings.