Roland Schimmelpfennig's highly acclaimed debut novel. At night on an icy highway, eighty kilometers from Berlin: a tanker truck tips over and lies across the road. On the shoulder, for the briefest moment: a lone wolf. We follow its tracks to Berlin, where its path repeatedly intersects with the lives and fates of various people. Like in a black-and-white film, where yellow winter flames flicker, the images and stories of this novel pass by us. They tell of searching and being lost, of the coldness of our time and the longing for a different life. Roland Schimmelpfennig's first novel was shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2016.