Everything seemed very unreal to me, and I tried to protect myself from it. Only after weeks did I realize it was reality and that I would never see her again. From that day on, Nelli disappeared from my life. Finland. A German school class is on their graduation trip. A girl, Nelli, goes missing. Her father, an unrestrained hothead, makes threats. The classmate, Jacob Zimmermann, who last saw her, comes under investigation. The search for Nelli and the inquiry into what actually happened prove difficult and lead Jacob Zimmermann into the deep forests of Finland. He takes the reader on a journey whose deeper meaning he initially does not understand himself.