Nachtgeschwister

I knew immediately that I had stumbled upon something great, something unique, a poet like those who have only existed sporadically throughout time. A small collection of poems, taken somewhat randomly from a bookstore, is the catalyst for a passionate love story, an obsession, a tormenting entanglement. From the very first lines, there emanated a force, a light, a darkness, a pain, a beauty, a weight – this is how the woman who reads the poems describes it – that the world changed for me in an instant because now there was this voice within it. The voice of a soulmate, the voice of someone lost. But also of someone found. For now, she sets everything in motion to meet the author of these poems, who is unreachable on the other side of Germany. She writes, she calls. And one day, when he...