Michael Braun also can't get his Latin tutor out of his head for the rest of his life: It's the story of an unfulfilled love. When she, the beautiful Alies, whom everyone in the village in the provinces calls Alice, suddenly disappears without a trace, Braun is left with only the memory of shy kisses, a penchant for exotic women and the question of what happened to her. Not that he had tried to solve the mystery in all these years: first, he was afraid of the lions of Alien's neighbor, who wanted to train himself as a tamer, and second, of her choleric husband, who shot the lions at some point. And thirdly, Braun is someone whose childhood heroes are people who endure 139 days in space or survive 18 days in a prison cell without forgetting to eat or drink. Braun has also become a bit like this: He perseveres in his relationship and survives as a civil servant at the registration office. Until one day Alie's husband collapses dead and the keys to his house fall into his hands: Now finally the moment has come to save Alies and free himself ...