In the novel, the author opens up this very bitter topic – a boy is dealing with the loss of his father, and moreover, his mother, wanting to spare him the pain, does not take him to the ceremony. The farewell at the grave thus turns into a long farewell, which is outwardly hidden, but cuts deep into the boy's soul. At the same time, Denis is also faced with all the unplanned changes that his father's sudden death triggers: moving out of town, a new school environment, a break from basketball training, finding new friends...
These attempts to establish new social relationships include the boy's letters to his dead father. Here he finds his true interlocutor, here he is most honest, here he dares to write that, for example, his mother does not understand him. Only his father will believe that he was unjustly convicted of theft. Only with his father can he talk about how he feels guilty about his death.
The novel helps us understand the pain that we try to push away from our surroundings. It is so valuable because it is so directly and honestly, it is an image of our fears and sorrows, which we often do not know how to, cannot, and do not dare to admit. Cvetka Bevc tells us with her literary language that grief must be faced, talked about, and acknowledged. The peculiarity of her message is that it is conveyed through a child who is able to see and know more than adults in distress. (summarized from the general page of the Družina publishing house)