For 6,000 years, they have been in each other's arms: When the skeletons of two young people from the Neolithic era were excavated near the city of Mantua in 2007, the images went around the world. "Romeo and Juliet from the Stone Age" - that was the sensational headline. Then came the crisis and the "cursed spring," the earthquake in May 2012, and the Renaissance city of Mantua had other worries. In Ralph Dutli's novel, the famous Stone Age couple suddenly disappears after investigations in an archaeological laboratory, prompting the writer Manu to embark on a search. However, he soon becomes untraceable himself. Kidnapped to the estate of a dubious count, he is to help establish a new religion of love, not centered around the crucified figure, but with the image of the lovers from Mantua. In a liminal world of reality and dream, the Mantua of...