At the age of twelve, Christiane F. starts using hashish in a youth home, and shortly after, she turns to heroin in a nightclub. She becomes addicted, attends school in the mornings, and in the afternoons, she goes with her friends, who are also addicted to heroin, to the child prostitution scene at Zoo Station. The Berliner Christiane F. recounts her sad story with meticulous memory and unreserved honesty. A book that shook Germany in the 1970s and has lost none of its relevance to this day.