Knowing and looking the other way: about fragility and hope in dark times It is a mild early summer when Dora returns to her hometown of Hausen after many decades. For hours she wanders through the strangely familiar streets - to her parents' house, but also to the half-timbered house where her best friend once lived. When she discovers that stumbling stones have been laid in front of this house, Dora is stunned. Because there are only four stones there, but she knows exactly that there should be five. One is missing, namely that of her former best friend Fanny. What happened to her back then? In her rousing novel, Ute Mank tells the story of a village in dark times, the story of two girls who are separated by war, and the story of a fateful rescue. Biography