Lena Maria is five years old and often stays home alone with her little brother Maxi. Lena always tries not to annoy her mother Karla. That does not work all the time, though, especially not when she is tired or when she just does not get along with her brother or mother. The threat of her mother one day leaving forever hangs over her like a sword of Damocles. Only with Kalle, her stuffed bunny, Lena can share her worries. One day Hannah, a girl whose family seems to be intact, becomes Lena’s source of hope. With her Lena can spent careless hours and days, far away from her moody, revised mother. It is also Hannah who eventually rescues Lena and Maxi out of their dangerous loneliness… A novel about the neglect of children that intends to rouse us – don’t close your eyes, show initiative!