Here, in her own words, a woman at least 600 years old shares with the reader how it was that she was cursed to be a werewolf because she had spurned the advances of the mayor's son in the village in which she lived with her family in what is now Eastern Germany. The reader also learns a bit about the people of her village, her family, the challenges of daily life in a medieval society, and the woman's own experiences of hunting in the forests at night as a wolf.