This book is a tale of a girl named Anemone who runs away from the injustice at her house when her father hires a new housekeeper. It takes place in an old town in Germany named Vogelsang which turns out to be full of odds and ends of magic. This housekeeper, Ilsebill, has a bratty son, Erwin, who gets Anemone blamed for everything, and all of her late mother's precious creatures begin to suffer as well. Aunt Gundula, a famous painter in the little town, takes in Anemone and turns her into a boy called Perdu, the perfect disguise.

Soon everyone from Amenone's dog Winne to her Aunts Lena and Tina (who also come to stay with Aunt Gundula because of a mysterious mystery that their husbands are accused of having to do with) are wrapped up in a spellbinding mystery indeed. It is a mystery of an overpowering mayor, his counsels, a missing foolish virgin and watersprout from the cathedral, and a mysterious tyrant who died years ago. Now they must work to save the little town of Vogelsang, before it's too late!

Translated from German.