The first chronologically book of the author. Along with the Traveler, they are two unique literary treasures.

In 1920s Berlin, life is not easy for the heroes of Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz's first novel. They are the real losers of the economic crisis: war disabled, beggars, prostitutes, madmen. Every night they gather at the Charmed Hunter. Some to drink, others to sing and dance.

To let off some steam, to take a breath of carefreeness, before the gray everyday life swallows them again the next morning. Suddenly, the blind Zönnenberg's wife dances with Grisman, who has come to the Hunter to enjoy the company of a woman and has not properly calculated the anger of the betrayed husband. The disaster is not long in coming. But the world quickly finds its rhythm again - new loves are woven and the gray life continues the next morning.

The twenty-two-year-old aspiring author truly depicts the life of the destitute proletariat of Berlin during the interwar years: small and broken people, who no longer have any reason to laugh, but persist in finding joy and celebrating life, however they can.