A powerful plea for being different. Expressively illustrated by Julius Thesing. Sibylle Berg’s successful play now as a graphic novel.

Lisa spends her evenings searching the cosmos for extraterrestrial life. With good reason, as her daily life on Earth isn’t very cheerful: Her parents don’t care for her at all (in fact they can hardly be distinguished from the sofa cushions). At school she is a welcome victim for just about everyone. When a spaceship lands behind her house one night, the alien visitors cast a quick, disgusted look round and zoom off again. Only one stays: Klakalnamanazdt, whom Lisa quickly dubs Walter.

On Walter’s planet, the focus is on cuddling, playing, and taking care of each other — it’s no wonder that he finds life on Earth pretty foreign. Without further ado, he begins to tidy up Lisa’s life – until she can manage without foreign powers on our extremely odd planet Earth…