"As every year, German singer Alexa celebrates her birthday on the evening of Swiss National Day with a rooftop party—though still without the long-awaited naturalization decision. Meanwhile, Kamal urgently needs a safe place to stay. If he doesn't leave the country immediately, he faces deportation to Tunisia. But since homosexuals are persecuted there, he asks his German teacher Zoltan if he can go into hiding at his place for a few days. Yet Alexa’s best friend says no—for reasons he won’t even admit to himself. Over the course of the day, events escalate, and not only the party—where everything comes to a head—hangs in the balance.

Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s classic Mrs Dalloway, Ulrike Ulrich paints a panoramic portrait of life in contemporary Europe—polyphonic, original in voice, and executed with literary brilliance."