Christian Schneider is a world-famous physicist. His ideas about "God and the world" naturally correspond with current mainstream thinking. He is married, has three adult children and lives in a traditional, upper-middle class, intact world. But appearances are deceptive; not everything is as it appears, and a few things seem to be completely different from how he expects them to be. Quite unexpectedly, Christian finds himself confronted with major problems. Following a severe stroke of fate, which severely endangers his very existence, he sets out on an extraordinary and fascinating journey into an unimaginably strange world, where he gradually learns to call his entire worldview into question. Sustained by unconditional love, he gains completely new and far-reaching insights into the cornerstones of his life and that of all human beings. His opinions about matter and spirit, space and time, mankind and animals, men and women, sin and punishment, life and death, and not least his opinions about 'God' are radically changed.