Had Tomek not let his friends persuade him to go out with them, his bicycle tires would not have been slashed, and he would not now be racing through the leaden morning fog on his grandmother’s folding bike. If he is late again today, he will not be able to show his face at work anymore.
At the other end of the city, Rosi gets on the bus that takes her to her workplace. Today, for the last time — that is what she has decided. Only a few months have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and yet in this short time her quiet, modest life has been completely turned upside down. What this upheaval means for her and the people around her, no one can see from here.

Chance determines whom the reader follows through the foggy morning at first, as the story begins at both ends of the book. The path leads across translucent pages that gradually shorten towards the center, revealing both stories piece by piece. Finally, two narrow pages face each other like a street. By turning the book and changing the direction of reading, one moves between the two protagonists, who each deal with the upheavals of their time in their own way.

Rosi and Tomek move towards each other, the dense fog swallowing their surroundings — and for a moment, their paths touch.