On November 9, 1989, Bernd Zeiger, a Stasi officer in the twilight of his career, is deteriorating from a mysterious illness. Alarmed by the disappearance of Lara, a young waitress at his regular café with whom he has become obsessed, he chases a series of clues throughout Berlin. The details of Lara's vanishing trigger flashbacks to a past transgression - the betrayal of his friend Johannes Held, a physicist who had infiltrated an American research institute dedicated to weaponizing the paranormal. Darkly comic and hauntingly surreal - the author lives in Berlin.