As with any good film, you feel sad when this novel comes to an end. Kurt Lukas, a male model, is welcomed as a guest at a former mission station in the tropics. Amidst five elderly priests, he falls in love with the housekeeper Mayla. Overnight, the priests become accomplices in a great love; they are instigators, confidants, matchmakers, and tireless observers. Bodo Kirchhoff tells the story of a chain reaction and its astonished witnesses, of the only positive catastrophe that life has to offer: love.