The narrator visits a friendly couple in Styria with his partner. The media reports on a double murder of two children, which the murderer is said to have recorded with a video camera. While the four friends move back and forth between the television, card games, the kitchen, and conversations, a frantic search for the murderer is taking place very close to them. "Where Glavinic stands, we know after this book: in the front row of German-language literature." Daniel Kehlmann, Literaturen.