An a-level student carries a gloomy, sullen guilt in his soul which holds him off from other people. His only friend is an oak deep in the forest. But one autumn in the 1990s he cannot avoid meeting a young man with a dog who tries to bring him back to life gently. But can the outsider allow this to happen? The melancholy, poetic novella "Where Clouds End" was written between October 1999 and the summer of 2000. After extensive revision it was first published in 2019 in an English and a German version.