With seriousness and stubbornness, with humor and feeling, Georg Klein has demonstrated in his prose where the common narrative techniques have cracks through which the light of the fantastical can seep into the expected. Genres that seem rigid become pliable again and are ripe for intellectual and emotional surprises. His new novel begins in a seemingly hermetically sealed work environment. The team working in the "middle office" operates, desk by desk, at the "soft glass." They wear light blue overalls and march together at the end of the day to the current nourishment corridor, where the "pale wall" provides a meal for everyone. Afterwards, each person slips into their personal quiet cubicle. However, for several nights now, office manager Nettler has been awakened by a mysterious "inner wind," which makes him question everything he believes he remembers as work experience.