The old aunt Mirl immediately takes care of a fawn she finds in the forest with a broken leg. The deer finds care and warmth in the home of the kind aunt, but homesickness and longing for the forest and meadow make it sad. Eventually, the aunt has to let it go, and it is lonely again in her house. But this soon changes. For the deer has not forgotten the old Mirl. A nostalgic children's book about the fact that sometimes you have to let go for everything to turn out well.