They were best friends starting their stage careers together — until things fell apart. Sonja, nicknamed Sun, was betrayed by Jana von Mond. Years later, Jana — now a comedy star — shows up at Sun’s funeral parlour and asks her to host the memorial service for her late partner. Old wounds reopen, new ones are inflicted. Sun and Moon are unable to break free from their orbit; they shine on, each in their own way, sometimes cold, sometimes warm.

Jesko is a freak, a young fashion designer who likes to wear skirts. He doesn’t conform to social norms and restraints - he has leukaemia, and doesn’t have long to live. Under a pretense, Jesko is lured to his family’s upper-class villa. His mother is being considered as a bone marrow donor, but Jesko refuses her help.
Because, long ago, this woman treated him and his brother terribly.

With Chris Kraus’ irresistible black humour and wit.

This powerful artist novel and love story is an evocation and a swan song to a youth greedy for highs and fame on the eve of 9/11. Written with the irrepressible joy of storytelling that captivated readers of Cold Blood.

»I’m a winter woman, Jonas. I hope you don’t meet some damn summer woman.«
»I’m not going to meet any women. New York is a city completely devoid of women.«

A movie about sex. Raw and radical. In New York. That is the task Jonas has been given. But how is the film student, who is out of his depth, supposed to make a movie in the darkest corner of the Lower East Side, surrounded by stranded artists? When he meets Nele, a headstrong, dazzling summer woman, his eyes are opened for the true purpose of his trip: an encounter with his own horrific family history.