The Rider on the White Horse: The Night of the Stakes

After a night of North Sea wind, Hauke Haien discovers that several surveying stakes on the new dike have been moved by a handsbreadth. That is enough to steer responsibility, guilt, and superstition in new directions at the next flood. Villagers prefer to speak of signs rather than tool marks; precisely therefore the technical truth becomes political. Hauke must decide whether to name the sabotage openly or first find the hand behind it before the village turns it into legend.