Mareike Fallwickl's new novel about the burden dumped on women and rebelling: radical, awakening, empowering.Helene, mother of three, gets up at dinner, goes to the balcony, and plunges to her death without a word. The family is in a state of shock. Suddenly, everything that has held them together until now is missing: Love, care, security.Helene's best friend Sarah, who both envied and pitied Helene for her family, is pulled into the vortex of grief and chaos. Lola, Helene's oldest daughter, searches for a way to cope with her emotions and focuses on the emotion that is strongest: anger.Three women: One evades what life demands of a mother. The other two, the daughter and the best friend, must find ways to close that gap. Their fates interweave in this moving and combative novel about what it means to be a woman in our society.