They are a happy couple. Ada and Yves have decided to have a child, but they fear the incompatibility of love, career, and parenting. That's why they participate in the prestigious project of the White Castle, where surrogate mothers carry and raise children for other parents, all in a bio and fair trade manner. Parenthood here is a profession, monitored and directed by an all-controlling apparatus. The offspring can be visited at any time. Over the course of nine months, the novel depicts their journey to having their own child, following the changes in their self-image and their relationship. In the style of Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go," it poses important questions of our time in its own experimental setup: When does attachment become a loss of freedom? What is family? Are the traditional roles of mother and father negotiable? Playfully, "The White Castle" reaches e.