What could drive a young woman, a successful architect and wife of an equally successful architect, to seemingly kill her brother-in-law in cold blood? At first, her husband cannot believe his wife is guilty, but when her guilt is established beyond reasonable doubt, he decides not to abandon her and, digging into her past, to investigate what her motives may have been. What he discovers, risking his life several times and delving into the most sordid secrets of the GDR, is a childhood trauma of monumental proportions, capable of undermining the psychological foundations of even the most stable person. A book that is perhaps not perfect, that does not answer all the questions it raises, but is nonetheless enjoyable to read and testifies to the healing power of love.