The internationally acclaimed masterpiece about love, betrayal and fear - especially about male violence. Anyone who has experienced extreme things is also capable of doing extreme things - this is shown in this multiple award-winning and highly exciting novel about two women who meet as if by chance and who are nevertheless connected by a common story. When Aliide Tru, an old woman living alone in a farmhouse in the Estonian countryside, finds a bundle in her garden that turns out to be a young woman, she swallows her skepticism and misanthropy and takes Zara into her home. Zara is on the run from her pimps, who have brutally forced her into compliance and are already hot on her heels. But Zara is by no means looking for shelter with Aliide as accidentally as she thinks: Aliide could be her grandmother's sister. While Zara is still looking for evidence of their relationship and for a way to leave Estonia, Aliide feels threatened by the young woman: too often she has had to protect her body and soul, her belongings, from intruders. Flashbacks paint a sharper picture of a family tragedy that culminated almost fifty years earlier when Estonia was occupied by the Russians. Rivalry and jealousy, shame, a need for protection and, above all, fear of men's brutality towards women - these are the motives that forced Aliide to make unimaginable decisions.