Jasmine's letter

November 2007: Käthe Weiss, the elderly childless woman living alone in her small house, is increasingly struggling with daily tasks such as fetching wood, preparing milk for the cat, and making a cup of tea. She is tired; soon she will fall asleep. She does not resist it. Nor does she resist the memories, nor the impending death. Images arise of her first encounter with David just before the war began. The difficult years of marriage pass before her, during which she sat across from a man who concealed everything from her. She stood alone, betrayed by one friend and suspected by another. During these three days in November, Käthe brings order to a life that, despite everything, she would not have wanted to live differently, for that would have meant not knowing Jan Hansen, who was actually named Jan Weiss, and his daughter Jasmin.