A playful game of Eros, power, and money. Gisela Stern has made it. Coming from modest beginnings, she has married into a wealthy family, built a career in a bank, and mingles in so-called high society. Yet, an uncertain longing remains, a feeling of being out of place. When a handsome, ambitious man enters her life, the carousel of power begins to spin, and the intertwining of politics and desire takes its course. Peter Rosei masterfully stages the rise and fall of a woman against the backdrop of a highly corrupt society with his laconic style. A sharp-witted and multifaceted novel.