»Then there are the one centimetre buckles of the Cyd Jounys directly opposite his eyes. One boot is moving up, vanishes out of his sight. Fred feels a stabbing pain in his neck. He has to free himself, he has to defend. But his body doesn’t obey him.«
Fred’s fetish are shoes. As his new neighbour rings at his door to borrow tools, she is wearing boots by Cyd Jouny, a famous designer, which are very rare. He falls in love with the boots, but the neighbour refuses to sell them because they are so comfortable. And so he decides to use his special mixture of narcotic drops one more time, the kind of medicine that makes people forget everything. But the neighbour has a secret too ...