It's a glowing late summer day. Karin and Mirjam are playing horse. Daddy stopped talking long ago. Mommy has a serious problem with body hair. Really serious. The Horse Man cometh, and things are about to change.
Five-year-old Sara has a very special gift. She can fly. When her mother discovers this she promptly takes Sara to the hospital. The doctors poke, prod and probe as doctors invariably do, and it's no fun at all for young Sara. No one understands her. The thing is that she can only fly when she's so happy that it tingles in her tummy.
"I wonder if I left the cooker on?" For K this turns into a morning dominated by thoughts of fire. Her strategies to avoid catastrophe become increasingly absurd. But when eventually she feels safe, fire finds another way into her life...
