Forfatteren begyndte i gymnasiet det år, Danmark blev besat af tyskerne. Hendes bog er en personlig beretning om, hvordan hun som ganske ung pige blev inddraget i modstandskampen. Den er en af de få skildringer fra krigen, der beskriver, hvordan pigerne og kvinderne deltog i dette arbejde. De første år hjalp hun med at arrangere møder om nazismen og med blad- og bogudgivelser. Dette arbejde blev illegalt i 1943 og dermed farligere. Hun var med til at opspore og skygge stikkere og til at indsamle belastende materiale om dem, somme tider ved indbrud. Hun skulle få fat i våben og finde gemmesteder til dem - og i det hele taget gå til hånde i det baggrundsarbejde, der var nødvendigt for aktioner og sabotage.

Bogen er en beretning om, hvordan modstandsarbejdet udviklede sig, om hvordan de "stille eksistenser" trofast fortsatte arbejdet, og hvordan frihedskæmperne arbejdede og levede. Også om sorger, når kammerater blev taget, og om skuffelser i efterkrigstiden.

English
The author began attending upper secondary school the year Denmark was occupied by the Germans. Her book is a personal account of how, as a fairly young girl, she was involved in the resistance movement. This is one of the few accounts of the war to describe how girls and women took part in this work. During the first years she helped to arrange meetings about Nazism and distribute papers and book publications. This work became illegal in 1943 and thus more dangerous. She took part in tracking down and tailing informers and in gathering incriminating material about them, sometimes by break-ins. She was to get hold of weapons and find hiding places for them - in short, to lend a hand in the background work that was necessary for the actions and the sabotage.

The publication is an account of how the resistance work developed, how the "quiet lives" faithfully continued their work, and how the members of the resistance movement worked and lived. It is also about grief when friends were caught and about disappointments in the postwar period.