Ich stelle mich schlafend

I present myself as sleeping, telling of the dark sides of love and the story of liberation. An intense novel about the attempt at annihilation, a femicide, and the question of whether there is an encounter that irrevocably changes the core of a person. The house where Yasemin lived until recently no longer exists. It had to be torn down to its foundations. Only memories remain of the apartment she last shared with her boyfriend Vito. Their story dates back to their youth: both grew up in the same high-rise complex, and Yasemin fell in love with the three-years-older neighbor when she was thirteen. Fascinated by questions of faith and spirituality from a young age, she tries to win Vito over with a love spell. However, after a stay in a sanatorium where her scoliosis is treated, she distances herself. Her own body feels too foreign, and the shame of her corset is overwhelming. It is only twenty years later, when her painstakingly straightened spine threatens to curve again, that they meet once more. Yasemin sees this late rekindling of their youthful love as fate. But then Vito reveals his inner self, which is threatening and empty.