Jovana Reisinger's debut novel "Still halten" is a storm of images: the protagonist, a young woman from a village now living in the city, unravels before our eyes. Already slightly detached, she is completely thrown off course when she learns from the director of a nursing home that her mother is dying. She cannot go to her, yet she keeps setting off again and again. In the end, she arrives too late; her mother has died, and there is no reconciliation between the two women. And something haunts her. The daughter inherits the house on the edge of the forest, to which she returns, but she does not let it in—becoming more and more confused, both herself and us...