Malvina is thirteen years old, and like all her peers, she goes to school, loves to chat with her best friend Lizzie, plays music, fights with the boys in the villa, rides a bike, falls in love, quarrels with her older sister, visits her grandfather, like Little Red Riding Hood...But something is wrong. Malvina has a dark secret - something that is embarrassing to admit, but very difficult to keep to herself. One day she tries to tell the truth to her family, but they don’t want to hear or understand her. Even her brother, who always supported her before... A poignant, bright, witty, poetic novel by the German writer Beate Therese Hanicki is her first book for teenagers, but it was for this that Beate received several awards, including being nominated for the German Children's Literature Prize. The translation of this book was supported by a grant from the German Cultural Center. Goethe Institute (Goethe Institute), funded by the German Foreign Office.