A profound answer to the question of what really matters in the end
"You will die. Not today, not tomorrow, but you don't have more than five years left!" When Karoline Nuckel's doctor says this sentence, all seems lost. But what does it mean to be confronted with your own finiteness in your mid-thirties? How should she lead her life from now on? Her partnership? What about her dreams and plans?
Karoline Nuckel and her life partner Samad Berdjas decide to live intensively and put check marks on their wish list: they buy a house because they have fallen in love with the hovel. They confront never having children together and rejoice in their intimate relationship with Samad's daughter from a previous relationship. They eat goose legs with dumplings and finally take their dream trip. And they talk about the inevitable questions: Can we stand it? What comes next?
The book is a plea for life and provides answers to questions we all have to face.
"I can do that later, too." Samad and I strike this sentence from our thoughts, because what are we actually waiting for? Karoline Nuckel
