Thirteen year old Lena has been adopted many times. And she has been sent back to the orphanage many times as well. This time she comes to live with another foster family. But she doesn’t care anymore. If noone has accepted her and fallen in love with her so far – why would this time be any different? She’s not the only child in her new home. There’s already Eye – a five-year-old with severly poor eyesight, which forces him to wear strange-looking eyeglasses; Spark – a hyperactive seven-year-old with ADHD; Memory – a withdrawn savant, who remembers everything he has ever read; Thin – an obese teenage girl with a colorful personality; and Arnold – the oldest of all children, a seventeen year old shy boy, a healthy lifestyle enthusiast. This time something is different though. Lena can feel it and she’s really scared of it. Because every next failure hurts more, even though Lena would like to be immune to this pain. To forestall the events she runs away from the new home. When the foster parents come to the police station to get her, she crawls into her shell. She doesn’t want to talk, eat, or live. And maybe for that reason, one night Oro appears.

In the Polish edition, the comic illustrations by Krzysiek Ostrowski are an integral part of the book. The illustrations are an attempt to look at Lena’s world through Oro’s eyes.

The book received the IBBY 2012 Literary Award for the Best Young Adult Novel.