With a loving gaze, the author accompanies the dormouse throughout the year. From the beginning of spring, when she builds a new nest for her young, to raising the dormouse babies in summer and finally to hibernation. During her nightly excursions, she encounters hedgehogs, bats, moths, nuthatches, dormice, and insects. Skillfully, she climbs at great heights through the thickets of forest edges and hedges, so that predators like owls, foxes, and weasels cannot spot the tiny creature.