Even Pawel can't console Nelly when her architect mother accepts a six months job in Dubai, so the tries to arrange a local alternative: renovating pa' s employer Vinzenz Grieshaber's shabby barn. Another classmate posing as a sheikh canceling the project doesn't work. Philip and Bertie distract Nelly by letting her mind a few weeks a finch fledgling pushed out of the nest by a cuckoo, but hearing she still must live in ten days, she runs away, hidden by Pawel and Pauline. Bertie Heckenbichler even offers to adopt her, but the solution is simpler.
—KGF Vissers