How often are you overcome by rage? What about hatred? What about the desire to kill? How often do we think to ourselves that we are “ready to kill so-and-so”? And what will happen if such a desire breaks through the shell of civilization and breaks out? Whose wine is heavier? The killer or the one who pushed him?..On a sweltering summer day, history teacher Samuel Zaykowski comes to a general school meeting and opens fire. After killing three schoolchildren and a colleague, he shoots himself. What was it? A bout of manic madness? A calculated and thoughtful act? How could a quiet, inconspicuous history teacher do such a thing? For the police, the case is crystal clear: another school incident involving a psychopath. And only Inspector Lucia May doubts, she is worried about the question: what is really behind this terrible event? Plunging into the background of the tragedy, talking with students, teachers, parents, she is convinced that the matter is not at all simple. A brilliant, ironic novel about the nature of evil, about the underside of well-fed well-being, about hatred that lives in the most unexpected places.