This story tells of cheerful, confusing, and incredible events, peculiar owls, and mysterious places. The attentive reader will learn things that the usual, often rather dull and unimaginative travel guides tend to overlook. And hopefully, they will see this corner of the Hochschwarzwald with many creatures that inhabit it, perhaps with entirely new, freshly polished eyes – especially when looking through the knothole of a piece of bark – and they will, like the sleepwalker on the roof of a garage in the hamlet of Oberweschnegg, confidently and fearlessly wander between reality and fantasy.