Mein bester letzter Sommer

Tessa is seventeen and has just been told that the heart condition she has lived with all her life has entered its final stage — she has weeks left, not years. Instead of retreating into fear, she decides to spend her remaining time living rather than waiting to die.

When Oskar, a boy who refuses to treat her differently once he learns her secret, proposes an impulsive trip to Italy, Tessa says yes. "Mein bester letzter Sommer" follows the two of them through a summer of first love, freedom, and reckoning with mortality, as Tessa tries to pack a lifetime of experience into the time she has left.