What choice is there but to flee when children suddenly become allergic to adults, who in turn forget they even have children; when birds spread their wings and fly away, and dogs attack their masters? Aria, her colleague Marion, and fifteen exhausted children try to make a life for themselves in an isolated, disused coastal hotel. But Einstadt’s residents don’t make life easy for them. Aria is even more concerned about the thin horse on the beach - how did it get there, and what does it want from her?

A female western and a dystopian story - only Stefanie vor Schulte could combine genres like this in such an incomparable novel.