Leave the village till you come to the valley, go into the wood and look for a solitary house with a fence around ità If you dare! In this story suspense and narrative tension are used to deal with the disturbing - but in the end amusing - day the protagonist goes through, on a day he thinks to be predictable: blow the candles out and eat his birthday cake. Humoristic brushstrokes in a tangle of clear literary and cinematographic references.