For as long as he can remember, the USA has been the place he’s longed to visit. Now he is here, in New York, the mother of all metropolises and the navel of the world. But everything is quite different from how he expected. He wanted to set off into a bright future – and now he realises that he will have to say goodbye to his vision. He is at a crossroads in his life, immersed in a world of glass palaces and homelessness, subculture and racism, sex and rebellion. In Armin Thurnher’s serious yet ironic novel that is close to his own life, he describes this young man’s experiences in 1967 and what he fails to do. He explores how people’s views of the world can change and how he doesn’t become an American after all. Although he came close.