Carolina Schutti's novella is a quiet, fragile text, whose main character, the boy Jakob, struggles with the silence of his rural surroundings. It is a suffocating world in which he grows up: his father pinches him at the table and takes the potatoes, cheese, and milk, while his mother looks on silently before throwing a thread into the conversation, from which a hesitant dialogue unfolds. The conversation leads to a card game, and the card game into the night. The next day, Jakob barely hears his mother approaching in the grass, for one shadow does not see another, and he is startled when she suddenly stands behind him and places her hand on his shoulder. With a distinctive, subtle, and nuanced approach to motifs and imagery, Carolina Schutti tells the story of a child's disturbance and draws readers into the mysterious atmosphere of a strangely foreign world.