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Hans Giebenrath is a delicate and solitary adolescent who lives in a small town in the Black Forest. When teachers and family discover that he has an extraordinary talent, they push him to embark on a dizzying race to pass the entrance exam to the seminary, where the country's most brilliant students are subjected to strict intellectual discipline that ensures them a bright future. But the price Hans has to pay for this pressure is very high. Beneath the Wheel is the moving and shocking story of Hans, the desperate cry of a child prodigy trapped in a petty and closed society in which exceptionality leads people to the limits of alienation and endangers their integrity.