Art professor Benjamin Leiser has everything – money, status, relationships – yet he is still not satisfied. When he meets the student Konstantin, he chooses him as the son he never had but always wanted, and he recalls the year '89, when his dreams still seemed achievable: to become a painter, to be a father, to find happiness. Thirty years later, he tries to fulfill these essential needs in a creative way. This is a novel about artists and a story of change, exploring missed opportunities and apparent failures, told with cinematic vibrancy and multi-perspective wit. "It is masterfully and very cleverly done how Res Sigusch shifts perspectives, how our gaze is guided and our perception shaped. Depending on which eyes we look through and at what moment we observe this man and the microcosm of the art world, we feel he is without morals – or full of compassion and love. In the end, there stands a real person; and that remains." Sandra Hoffmann.