This novel is a continuation of Hendrik Grun’s diary, a kind and witty resident of an Amsterdam house for the elderly. After a year of mourning, Grun takes up the pen again, sharing amusing and sad observations, thoughts about himself and those around him, about the modern world, and about life and death. The club of life-lovers “Old But Not Dead” welcomes new friends and resumes resistance against frailty, gloom, and stupidity. The “political” struggle for the future of the home for the elderly also intensifies.