The world of adolescents' thoughts and lives, which at times comes across as unpolished and raw: the young main character Julia is going through her maturing phase and is confronted not only with the friendships and enmities of her girl clique, urgently awakening sexuality or the question of her relationship to her environment, such as the church - but also with her connection to the spirit world beyond the comprehensible. She spends the vacations in a youth hostel, where she has both worldly and transcendent experiences and matures into a new person.

An authentic coming-of-age novel - also for adults - that sensitively and with a tragicomic touch depicts what are probably the most formative years in a person's life.