Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Tschick while enthusiastically acclaimed by readers and critics alike has to date been slightly shunned by the literary studies. The paper examines the novel’s distinctive utopian elements while, on the basis of Michel Foucault’s theory of heterotopia, distinguishing between utopia and heterotopia. The analysis shows that the two protagonists take a road trip to various heterotopias—places between reality and fiction—where sets of laws apply which are decidedly different from those upheld by the mainstream society. The utopian impulses which can (only) be experienced in such odd places will play a fundamental role in developing a mature conception of man and an invigorated personal identity.