For 15-year-old Michael Berg a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna & before long they embark on a passionate clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric & confused. For Hanna is not all she seems. Years later as a law student observing a trial in Germany Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock is Hanna. The woman he had loved is a criminal. Much about her behaviour during the trial does not make sense. But then suddenly & terribly it does
- Hanna is not only obliged to answer for a horrible crime she is also desperately concealing an even deeper secret.