Shirin is eleven when she arrives in Hamburg with her family. Only a few foreigners live in Germany, and people with darker skin stand out and often face rejection. Shirin often feels alone. Why can't she be like everyone else? Then she thinks of Tehran, where she loved going to the bazaar with her grandmother. However, over time, she adapts to her new surroundings and no longer lets the other girls walk all over her. Her parents become increasingly foreign to her. They don't even speak the same language anymore. And then there's Sarih, her Persian friend, who has a German boyfriend. What will happen to her? In a boldly revised new edition, Nasrin Siege tells the story of a childhood in 1960s Germany, of living between two worlds, of dreams and longings, and the search for one's own path.