In the summer of 1984, friends Ulli and Edi hitchhike from Vienna to Italy in search of adventure. Traveling from Verona to Sicily, seventeen-year-old Ulli learns about friendship, freedom, loneliness, betrayal and violence. In her autobiographical comic strip “Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life,” Ulli Lust tells about what she experienced during several months in a foreign country with an unfamiliar way of life.

The book is based on conversations, tactile impressions, letters and diary entries that immerse us in this desperate, exciting and sometimes dangerous adventure.