Wladimir Kaminer is looking for the green: allotment gardens were yesterday - now life in the countryside beckons. Who does not dream of their own little Garden of Eden? Wladimir Kaminer finds it in a village just outside Berlin. His family had had to give up the allotment garden because they did not really want to share their joy in "spontaneous vegetation". Now their paradise lies in Glücklitz - with a little house by the lake, supposedly the most northerly vineyard in the world, and with idiosyncratic inhabitants who soon make friends with their new neighbours. For Wladimir Kaminer, village life turns out to be an adventure including torpedo beetles and radish beds, the organization of a "Russian disco" in the village barn, secret fish, weather like in the Bermuda Triangle - and of course lots of stories ...