Selma, an elderly woman from the Westerwald region, has the ability to foresee death. Whenever an okapi appears to her in a dream, someone in the village dies the next day. However, it remains unclear who will be affected. Mariana Leky narrates what the villagers fear in the following hours, what they dare to do blindly, confess, or make disappear in her novel. 'What You Can See from Here' is a portrait of a village where everything is mysteriously interconnected. But above all, it is a book about love under difficult circumstances, love that seemingly always chooses the most unfavorable conditions. For Luise, for example, Selma's granddaughter, there are thousands of kilometers to bridge. The man she loves has converted to Buddhism and lives in a monastery in Japan. "One of the most delightful books of the year" - Judith Liere, STERN.