Welcome to the world of Donald Delpe. He is fourteen. A skinny teenager with shoulders as scrawny as a coat-hanger. An oddball. No eyebrows, no hair, and a face like a boiled potato. He trudges through the streets of North London in his size 12 shoes. Woolen cap pulled down to his eyes, headphones on, his iPod at full volume. No chance with the girls. And to top it all off, irritating parents and a pesky older brother. But worst of all: he has cancer, and things are not looking good. The world would be a bloody awful place, but for… MIRACLEMAN, the indomitable, invincible superhero invented by Donald, whose adventures he draws all over his pad – adventures involving the superhero's never-ending battle against his archfiend GLOVE, an insane doctor. Time is running out… Donald doesn't know how much longer he has to live, but he knows that he doesn't want to die a virgin. That is his dream. MIRACLEMAN has RACHEL, even GLOVE has a super-sexy nurse. And what about Donald? A time for superheroes… Superheroes have a habit of showing up when we least expect them. But unlike comic-book superheroes with their funny costumes covered in strange symbols, real-life heroes appear totally normal. It is Donald's good fortune to be helped by a number of human superheroes in a way he would never have thought possible. But will that be enough to save Donald? Donald Delpe is 14, fatally ill, full of unfulfilled desire and a comic-book artist. The only thing he wants to know is: »What is love all about?«