A woman, a house, and the forest - a gripping novel about loss and new beginnings. A woman alone in a remote house in the foothills: Marian has lost everything. A crisis and her own mistakes drove her to bankruptcy and complete withdrawal. But her attempt to find herself again in the inherited house becomes a struggle for survival. Marian learns to fend for herself with great difficulty; she fishes, poaches, steals chickens, and then there is Franz... A strong, fallen woman with the will to start anew, and country life as a reflection of a fragile bourgeois world - Doris Knecht tells this story in a distinctive tone and an engaging manner about what it is like to lose your beautiful life in an instant.