When the ball lands in the basket, she loves me, thinks Rufus, takes aim, throws, and scores. The oracle is right; Lilith and he will become a couple. They are both nineteen, and graduation is approaching - a time of transition, turbulent, frightening, and intense. Rufus looks ahead with confidence, countering uncertainty with numbers and facts. He wants to succeed and earn good grades to study astrophysics later, as he is convinced: Science is reliable. Lilith, on the other hand, wants no future and no diploma; she wants to paint, to freeze time, to master light, shadow, and colors. But varnish and canvas are not suitable as weapons, and her irrational desire gives birth to monsters. Lisa Kränzler's novel "Lichtfang" tells a story about growing up, rich in imagery and precise, bold and radical. A story about a sensitive, gifted, but damaged young woman.