One strolls through this novel like through the hustle and bustle of a pedestrian zone. Some people are seen more often, while others are hardly remembered. This is also true for Elsa's favorite patient, Luise Wäns, who is in love with Hans Scheffer, the head of a renaturation project. She longs to dive back into childhood with him, to create a small Arcadia against an allegedly adult world. A world that is as magnificent or terrible as the daily news, which constantly overwhelms us. Yet the characters continually wrest meaning and significance from everyday life. In her new novel, the great storyteller Brigitte Kronauer fulfills our immortal need for stories and anecdotes, for seriousness and comedy.