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After 'What We Live From', Bachmann Prize winner Birgit Birnbacher sensitively and literarily addresses the topic of neurodiversity in her new novel. Oz is different and struggles in school, but this time something really unfortunate has happened to him. On his way home, he wishes for at least a small catastrophe to distract his mother from the letter from the teacher that he has to give her. When Oz arrives home, Ann - who also has a fluttering nervous disposition - is not in the celebratory mood one would expect for report card day; something has indeed happened. The Zilly Grandma, who lives in the mountains, is gone. 'Subtle yet crystal clear, translucent and subtle' (Süddeutsche Zeitung), Birgit Birnbacher also tells in her new novel about people - and the opportunities that wild thinking can offer. Do those who cannot adapt perhaps have something to counter our overstimulated nature and environment?.