Oto meets Alina by chance, who is anything but an ordinary girl. Well, it's actually her mother who is different from what you would expect from mothers. When Oto finds out what some parents are like, he is shocked. He thought his mother was impossible! The boy decides to save Alina, which is of course anything but an easy task.
The novel Words I Don't Understand is a tense, emotionally powerful story about domestic violence, which sometimes makes the reader, along with the protagonists, hold their breath, but above all, they keep their fingers crossed that everything will be okay in the end. (taken from the website of Založba Miš)