Three foreign tourists from the swinger and nudist scene are on holiday in Germany. In this densely populated industrial country there are very few areas of unspoilt nature, but finally they find a place that still seems untouched, a deserted, idyllic lake with a nudist beach. But it has been cordoned off by the authorities because of African swine fever, even though the disease cannot be transmitted to humans. Our visitors overlook the sign because there are many other signs warning of serious dangers – ticks, oak processionary moths, fox tapeworms, beavers, you name it, but being in German they mean little to them.

While Emma enjoys herself with her hairy lover Mario, Daan is increasingly drawn into an anxiety psychosis. Using his smartphone, he learns that the lake has algae, leeches and catfish, while aggressive wild boars and wolves live in the forest. To make matters worse, he loses his smartphone in the water. But Mario also suffers a loss – as he swims out into the lake after intense sex with Emma he is attacked and attacked by a three-meter-long catfish.

Klaus Lelek’s graphic novel is a satire about German fear, but also about the German obsession with controlling and monitoring everything. It helps to know that FKK stands for Freikörperkultur, a standard German term for naturism, increasingly under threat in an overcrowded nation. The English translation is a little idiosyncratic, but matches the fable perfectly.