What is it like, modern Germany? This book is not a guide to the country, but a fascinating story about what it is like to live in Germany and be German. The book consists of short, bright, unusual stories written with humor about ordinary people, our contemporaries. A meeting on a train, a scene spied somewhere, a casual conversation with fellow travelers, a dialogue between customers in a store. All this together allows us to answer the question of what modern Germans are like, to understand how they look at the world, what they are interested in, where they study, how they get married and divorced, how they treat children and the elderly.