Levin Watermeyer knows every screw, every colleague, every intrigue. His life in the hardware store runs in an orderly fashion - until the expansion comes. New structures, new faces, and in the middle of it all Pina Sommerfeldt, smart, ambitious, unpredictable. While the bosses Ruis and Seehafer are under pressure to perform and environmental activists discover a biotope of the yellow-bellied toad on the hardware store grounds, the system begins to crumble - and Levin asks himself for the first time what will remain of him when everything grows except himself. Denis Pfabe tells the story from the middle of the present: a German microcosm of colleagues and customers, from the doldrums in winter to the hustle and bustle in the season. People in the age of total commercialization, of the consumer and smart mentality - a picture of our society, gripping, literarily original, sometimes evil and very entertaining. New product