Historical contemporary novel. The short summer of love and rebellion: Sebastian, Leander and Rieke rehearse the uprising Berlin, summer 2005: Gerhard Schröder has asked for a vote of confidence, forcing early elections. Barbecues are banned in the parks, and then the public order office also takes action against drinking alcohol in public. That's too much, decides a group of young students and rebels. They are all in the middle of their studies, beyond the euphoria of the beginning and before the onset of exam panic. Homework is a tiresome evil, but the timetable is pleasantly full of holes, and now it's semester break anyway. So they meet in the park, at the lake or at parties - and politics is always on the agenda. Sebastian in particular follows the parliamentary debates, press conferences and discussions on TV, gets upset about hypocrisy and power poker, but actually finds his relationship with Rieke much more exciting. When the idea of a blog comes up to articulate a counter-position, Sebastian is still on fire. But even the title is not really coming together, and meanwhile Leander is making much more radical plans. When Rieke suddenly brings a pistol in her handbag that is said to have once belonged to Andreas Baader, the situation escalates. Only a beacon seems suitable to attract the necessary attention. And since he has also started something with Luzie, Sebastian urgently has to make a decision... Thilo Bock delivers a dazzling portrait of a generation beyond ideologies and utopias. The dissatisfaction with the circumstances is great, the fear for one's own future even greater, and appealing alternatives are rather scarce. Nevertheless, there is a willingness to radicalise that does not seem to shy away even from the extreme. With great sensitivity for sensitivities and ways of speaking, Thilo Bock tells of freedom, longing and responsibility.
