In Anne Gesthuysen's novel "Maybe Life Has Better Plans" a village in the Lower Rhine is thrown into turmoil: a girl is in a coma and the rumor mill is in full swing. What has happened? While the entire town tries to get to the bottom of the case, community pastor Anna von Betteray takes the readers into her professional everyday life. The result is a kind of "soft crime" between village clichés, guilt feelings, and motherly love.