The dying in the Mediterranean and in the desert, the rightward shift in many countries - four angry young people no longer want to stand by and watch this madness and decide to set the Christmas tree on fire at the Binnenalster in Hamburg. An undertaking that not only poses technical challenges but also provides plenty of discussion material within the group. Alongside this, jealousy, vanity, and greed reign, as of course, the protagonists of this book are also subject to the eternal law that states: Nothing will ever change anywhere. Cafés and clothing stores with Swedish names sprang up in the gentrified neighborhoods like mushrooms from the sofa cushions of an incontinent alcoholic. Probably an attempt to revive their own childhood, when every two years they went with Mom and Dad to Småland or Öland, or at least occasionally got to watch 'Holidays on Saltkrokan' and 'Pippi Longstocking.' In any case, these were cute niches that wanted to keep the evils of this world—the wars and their immediate and indirect consequences, the plastic waste in the stomachs of whales, the floods, and other effects of the climate catastrophe—neatly at bay. No question, with these people—let's call them the Köttbullar Generation—a profound societal change was not going to happen.