Every day, nineteen-year-old Jannes and his family drive the sheep over the heathland of Lüneburger Heide. But there is growing unease in the area: the wolf is back.
More and more sheep are being killed, and these deaths cause conflicts in the village which quickly turn political. As the situation escalates and threatens to culminate in vigilante justice within the community, Jannes takes refuge with his sheep on the heath. Until he starts running into a strange woman there.He decides to follow her, and little by little he starts to learn the secrets of this supposedly idyllic landscape. He stumbles across violence, nationalist ideology – and a profound silence.
With his compelling anti-Heimatroman, Markus Thielemann looks deep into the abyss of a ‘quintessentially German’ idyll.