He has recently moved to a small town, where he is going to start a new life. The town seems completely empty this rainy, shadowy summer, the phone rings, but he doesn’t want to be disturbed. In the street, he finds a set of keys which fit in a house nearby, and when he happens to run into an old girlfriend, he invites her in.

Later, he goes to the place where she lives, at dusk he is standing in her garden, outside her window, and he wants to look after her. He discovers that another man visits her in the evenings.

Morten Øen’s pure and lyrical prose calls upon physical ambiences where the dark spells the light, and the novel is a story where the transitions between destruction and the will to do the right thing, clear-sightedness and vision become blurred. Morten Øen’s second novel is beautiful and disturbing.