Sonntag

The first symptoms appear one or two hours after the poison has entered the stomach. Émile hears the regular breathing of his wife beside him, feels her warmth, and notices her scent, to which he has never been able to get used. He feels no different than on any other Sunday. And yet: He has been preparing for this day for eleven months. All the problems that his marriage brought will be resolved, and Émile will be free forever. He himself would never have thought of marrying Berthe back when he arrived on the Côte d’Azur, but for her, the heiress of a pension near Cannes, it was true love. And Émile, the cook, turned the simple establishment into a paradise for gourmets. It is only when the maid Ada is hired that Émile is overcome by an unprecedented passion that changes everything.