Rushing palms, a rustling in the celery, a tiger disappears, in the distance an atomic bomb detonates, and consciousness begins to run backwards. It belongs to a television presenter who has been banished to a lonely island due to repeated misconduct, equipped at her own choice with a knife, a whetstone, and Meyer's Conversations-Lexicon. But she is not alone. There are already twenty-five sailors who have built a remarkable little parallel society since their shipwreck, called Hegelland. Originally Quakers, they now adhere to a self-invented religion of screws and maintain three presses with continuously improving print quality through diligent cultural efforts. What will happen now in the presence of the first woman, and what if more come? In 399 Neo-Spenser stanzas, Ann Cotten depicts the turbulence that arises after a female arrival.