Eliot Dean's life as a professor of English and Economics at the
University of St Gallen is given a shock when he begins an affair
with one of his students, seventeen-year-old Evie Muller, who
believes one day that Eliot will be married. Eliot's wife, Sandra,
is an attractive woman, and Eliot has no intention of leaving her,
especially as they have two children, thirteen-year-old Adam and
ten-year-old Ilsa. Eliot's boss, Gustav Schaefer, has always had
some hold over Eliot's life, since Eliot's grandfather who was
Gustav's best friend, died in mysterious circumstances many years
before. Although the death was investigated by the police, and
accidental death was the verdict, there has always been a suspicion
hanging over Eliot, who was present on the day his grandfather died
in the cellar of the infamous Werdenburg castle. Evie invites Eliot
to look into her background, having wondered what secrets her
parents were keeping from her. Eliot complies and goes to Reichenau
with Evie to look up her family history. They discover that her
parents are not her real family, and that Evie is in fact Jewish of
a mother who died in the Holocaust, and a father with whom may have
had association with Hitler's war machine. This discovery seemingly
- changes everything. Gustav has his own demons to deal with and
the police chief, Ernst Weber, who had first been on the scene when
grandfather Dean died, finds out that Gustav also has a dubious
past, and further investigations reveal that grandfather Dean may
have discovered the secret past of his then good friend Gustav
Schaefer. To which leaves Ernst Weber with a possible motive for
murder. Driven by desire and the ensuing circumstances, with which
he finds himself, and a worsening health condition, Eliot realizes
things are spiraling out of control and things take a further
sinister turn when his wife, Sandra, discovers the affair that her
husband refuses to relinquish. With Eliot now suffering from
pressures at work, the ensuing difficult situation between himself
and Evie, and signs of schizophrenia - can he possibly find an
answer to his problems or better still, a way out?
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