Luca, a child from the Ruhr area, tells the story of his fate. Born and then almost immediately gone. After 80 days in the intensive care unit, Luca plans a big celebration for his 18th birthday and reflects on what has happened so far. Luca was real. And everything that happened to him throughout his life truly occurred. Since there are neither computers nor paper in the place where Luca currently resides, he asked his alter ego to write this book: his father, Mr. Luca. He recounts the tumultuous times with a mix of melancholy, cheerful mischief, sometimes from one perspective, sometimes from another, always very personally.