How does one continue after a great, inexplicable loss? With psychological insight, Kristina Hauff tells a story full of hope and sorrow, and about the value of friendship. In the idyllic Elbe meadows of Wendland, two couples share a farm, a barn, and a herb garden - yet their once close friendship has been shattered. Thies and Sophie mourn their son Aaron, who drowned under unexplained circumstances. Alone with their guilt, they must witness day by day Inga's and Bodo's seemingly perfect family happiness. Until a year after Aaron's death, a stranger arrives in the village and uncovers what the four friends would have preferred to keep hidden. Atmospherically and sensitively, Kristina Hauff writes about deep connections, shameful secrets, and the pain from which new hope emerges.