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Erna Elzner's life can be called happy: a wealthy family, close relationships with her sisters, growing up in the early twentieth century, when ordinary citizens did not even have a premonition of the Great War. One day at lunch, she sees her grandfather's spirit, or so she thinks. From that moment on, Erna takes part in home séances as a medium. The themes of growing up, emancipation, attention to mysticism and irrationalism, which flourish against the backdrop of rapid industrial progress, are intricately intertwined in Olga Tokarchuk's novel. As a result, we have one of the most interesting texts by the Polish Nobel laureate.