The Hamburg-based graphic designer Michael Jessen is single, drives a sports car and is a rising star in his field. He’s at work on a new campaign when a picture from a junk shop totally throws him off track: Two red double-decker airplanes against a gray background inspire him to make an impulse buy, robbing him of sleep from then on. What is the mysterious background about and who is the unknown artist? Together with the art historian Edith, Michael Jessen sets off on an odyssey of seeing, which initially leads them from a farm near Oldenburg all the way to Bavaria and then off into the distance – to the vanishing point of their journey: the Caroline Atoll in the South Sea.
»Klaus Modick hasn’t just written a novel about art, but a contemporary artist’s novel.« – Deutsches Allgemeines Sonntagsblatt
