Flying means the world to Lukas. Ever since he could remember, he wanted to become a pilot and as he is the captain of an Airbus by now, he lives his dream. He has flown the route Frankfurt-Nairobi about a hundred times and like always, it is just a usual flight. Everything seems to be normal. Just before the plane rolls onto the runway and the tower contacts the cockpit though, he hesitates. It takes endless minutes before he recovers and he hopes that nobody has noticed, because what he does not want anybody to know: He suffers from fear of flying. Sarah is a professional politician. After two legislature periods, Berlin is merely the monotony of long days in the dry air of committee meetings. She fears solitary evenings with convenience food in one of the delegate-apartments. But she also knows that the weekends in her own flat outside Berlin offer just a minor difference to her life in the city. Lukas and Sarah meet on a return flight to Berlin, and a jolty love story that none of them really wants is about to develop. Jörg Thadeusz pictures two people that realize they cannot go on the way they live, but are too deeply accustomed to the routine of their lives to change it. Had he not used a big portion of humor and irony, the novel could be read as a plea for love at large. The author draws an honest, comical and convincing portrait of a love in our time.
