A week before Bjossi left Alma, she awoke to a sound outside her bedroom window … It was as if someone were digging their way out of the darkness behind her closed eyelids.

A gripping and thought-provoking story about family bonds and friendship, space and boundaries, freedom and the abyss, and how people choose to live their lives.

Alma holds a PhD in philosophy and is a former university lecturer, but since she and Bjossi moved back to his childhood village, she has been teaching
at the local primary school and dyeing her hair pink. Markus, her thirty-three-year-old stepson, lives with them and spends his days and nights in his room on the computer. One day, a brown package arrives for him in the mail, marking a turning point for all of them.

“… one of the most interesting writers of his generation.”
MORGUNBLADID DAILY

“A beautiful and philosophical novel that for this reason could be read ten times or more.”
JOHANNES OLAFSSON, BARA BAEKUR, RUV NATIONAL RADIO