El lector

The war is over. The past seems distant. Time has stood still in the neighborhoods of Berlin, who are now watching with some amazement how new constructions appear on the lifeless lots. A teenager vanishes on one of those streets and is assisted by a woman. Thus begins the love story that unites Michael Berg with Hannah. Seeing her again every day will become the fifteen-year-old's only obsession. School, friends, youthful yearnings suddenly disappear from his life. He only aspires to meet her, step into her warm kitchen, resume the bathing ceremony, seduce and allow himself to be seduced ... the rest does not matter. It doesn't matter if he doesn't know who that woman is. Until one day Hannah disappears. He will only see her again seven years later, in the middle of a delicate trial, in which Berg will once again feel trapped by her.