The setting is a German university town at the turn of the millennium. Promising young researcher Teresa Rinaldi, a post-doc in sociology, struggles with anxiety about the future, while her boss, chair of sociology Jakub Feldmann, is suddenly faced with issues he has long evaded.

Gudrun Rogge-Wiest teaches English and Chemistry at a grammar school in Germany and writes in her free time. She has two adult daughters. Her PhD has the title Wahrnehmung und Perspektivik in ausgewählten Romanen Virginia Woolfs (Perception and point of view in selected novels by Virginia Woolf). Besides, the author has published a volume of essays entitled Nevertheless be Free: A literary Journey and Sleepwalking, a collection of dream narratives.