Sci-Fi novel set around a shift in the Earth's axis meaning that Leipzig is now on the equator. Jakob, a young man lost in the forest, stumbles upon a strange city inhabited by the dead. At first, he is fascinated by this place of eternal night, but he soon realizes that he is in grave danger. The dead are not truly dead, but rather trapped in a state of undeath, and they are constantly hungry for the flesh of the living. Jakob must use all of his cunning and courage to escape from the City of the Dead.