Simon has a love-hate relationship with his father. When his parents go on holiday, Simon initiates a seductive game of cat-and-mouse with his father’s mistress and gets disastrously tangled up in the sticky family network.

Borametz—half plant, half animal—a hybrid of the incurable vegetable lamb, firmly rooted to the ground as a four-legged plant, complaining about nature—what does it want to tell us, standing there in the drizzling rain, inconsolable and indignant, as it speaks for the last time?