About the book
The ordeal that life has dealt to fifteen-year-old student Barbara from Celje has consequences for the rest of her life. Drobižek, with her steely muscles and a born runner, finds strength in running, where she is already knocking on the door of the national team. But even a powerful opponent, a local dignitary, is not sitting idly by. He makes sure that neither the police nor the prosecutor's office believe her story of abuse, and in court, Barbara has little chance without the help of lawyers. Will the truth prevail despite everything?
A socio-psychological youth novel in which the author wanted to show the smallness and helplessness of an ordinary person who is actually affected by criminal matters and who fights against the system and corruption. He depicted the story of the sexual abuse of a minor who, alone with her mother, fights against a big politician who is allowed to do anything. The background is the current atmosphere in Slovenia, which is on the verge of something that could almost be called a criminal event, where the tentacles of corruption and depravity reach into every pore.
About the author
Igor Karlovšek (1958) is a lawyer by profession, but for more than three decades he has been writing television and film scripts, radio plays and novels. In his youth novels, he faithfully portrays the problems of the growing generation. For his youth work Gimnazijec, he received the Večernica award in 2005.