Ten-year-old Lucie finds her father to be a burden. Compared to her beautiful mother, a detective, her gardening father is an annoying "failure or slip-up." Lucie can only hope that she won't be seen with "that guy over there" when he stands in front of the school to pick her up, with dirty hands and bulging pockets that are dripping. What is dripping are those "thingamajigs" or "delicacies" that her father keeps going into the woods for, which her mother disdainfully calls "muck" and has long stopped wanting to eat. However, Lucie occasionally joins him in the woods - albeit without much enthusiasm - and then she even finds many of the "forest delicacies," knows the names of the different types, and understands their secrets. When her father is accused of an alleged conspiracy against the K.