Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer living a very private life in Maine. For she is the woman with whom Thomas had an intense love affair twenty-five years before in a divided Berlin, where people lived fearfully under the shadows of the Cold War.

Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer living a very private life in Maine. For she is the woman with whom Thomas had an intense love affair twenty-five years before in a divided Berlin, where people lived fearfully under the shadows of the Cold War.