Beginning in West Germany in 1982, 18-year-old school boy Helmut falls in love with fellow pupil Britta.
Britta, however, suddenly moves to San Francisco to live with her father and whilst there, finds a new boyfriend.
Helmut begins a lot of short affairs with different women but still searches for his first girl.
Helmut is lying in his girlfriend's bed when his old school friend Mücke calls him, who saw Britta in Berlin.
The novel has a lot of biographical moments from Goosen, but the story is typical for a West German youth in the 1980s.