In German: Countryside. Short DescriptionAn old man wakes up: Owen Mackenzie, a computer engineer from the first generation who started with a partner, a small software company and sold in time to Apple. Since then he has no money worries. The anxiety level of his 70 years, we can participate in his erotic biography. It begins with one of the boys incomprehensible graffiti on the wall of the school, with looks of the girls in the locker room, the strange reaction of the mother, as he takes a Sunday stroll with a condom. Then: Petting the teenager in his father"s car, studied at MIT, in love, early marriage to fellow student Phyllis, the wedding night, children, Sidewalks - serious and casual -, beloved, divorce, new marriage with Julia, divorced of the clergy. Now, after 25 years, it rumbles in the morning in the kitchen, it smells like coffee. Owen has spent his whole life in small towns; Updike portrays this Middle America loving and unsentimental, with the merry men hunt going on and Karen Faye and Vanessa and Antoinette, and the men who do not deserve the beauty and compassion of women.