A summer as hot as this one, a hundred years ago, has not been experienced since. There was hardly any green to be seen; tame and wild animals lay languishing in the fields. The Fire Man dominates the land with his scorching summer heat because the Rain Woman has fallen asleep. Maren and Andrees extract from him the incantation that can awaken the Rain Woman and set out to find her. Theodor Storm combines in his artistic fairy tale the two personified natural forces, merging the magic of the supernatural with a captivating depiction of the landscape in the blazing sun. Thus, the reader is presented with two worlds: a real one and a second, fantastical world where nature beings determine the fate of humans. Günter Pump has brilliantly illustrated the well-known fairy tale with atmospheric nature photographs.