An entirely ordinary person, his entirely ordinary life, and his entirely ordinary end. But nothing about Lukas Bärfuss' new novel seems ordinary to us. For the end is a suicide, and the one who committed it is his brother. Bärfuss traces the fate of his brother and encounters a great silence. The topic appears to be surrounded by a significant taboo and a mystery. Why did his friends call him Koala? How did he come by that name? The search for clues becomes an attempt at self-assurance. Regarding the question of why someone sought death arbitrarily, Bärfuss delves into another: What reasons are there to choose life?.