An unexpectedly chilling novel from the author of the bestsellers Hana, Tiché roky, Listopád. They call her Cácora and it seems that she was born by accident and as if on purpose. Her father disappeared somewhere during the floods, her mother runs away from responsibility to lovers and alcohol - and the little girl is left hanging on the neck of her unfriendly grandmother, who manages the garden and is convinced that everything bad in life can be exterminated like voracious reptiles. Or simply not to talk about it. But all around is a forest in which something menacing is hidden, and one day Cácora starts to talk...