And Now: The World! Or, The So-Called Outside Means Nothing To Me

They are smart, well educated and live in precarious circumstances, since none of the many internships they do makes money. They sell home made drugs on the Internet, they write fashion blogs and boost the market value of their own bodies in gyms, although they despise the market. They communicate via Skype, text, chat or phone and still can't help the feeling of overwhelming solitude. In Sibylle Berg's "text for one and several voices", a young woman takes stock of her life thus far: member of a brutal girl's gang once, it's now peaceful yoga, where there was once petting clumsily in summer camp, it's now gender questions and «sex» and «love» projects with men and women, once highflying idealism, now pragmatism. Desire and longing only happens in movies, family is a grouping one puts together, and the outside world lurches forever, making demands and setting up role models one can never be.

Mercilessly and yet with great tenderness, Sibylle Berg draws a portrait of four women in their early twenties who - torn between aggression, and apathy, between take off and serenity - are unsure what they should be fighting for, and who even meet the word «we» with justified skepticism.