In a boarding school in Austria, children suffering from Indigo syndrome are hosted. Anyone who gets close to them experiences symptoms of nausea and severe headaches. The mathematics professor Clemens Seth loses his job when he tries to investigate the mysterious transformations of certain children.

Fifteen years later, a former boarder discovers a newspaper article related to Seth's acquittal from the charge of murdering an animal torturer. How is this story connected to the enigmatic events of the past?

“A beautiful and terrifying novel” (TLS) by the genius Clemens Seth (b. Graz, 1982), “one of the most promising German-speaking writers” (Frankfurter Allgemeine). The award-winning collection of short stories The Comfort of Round Things is also available in the Aldina series.