One evening the telephone rings. Theo recognises the voice at once: it’s Alissa, his daughter, whom he has neither seen nor spoken to in twenty years. Her disappearance, all those years ago, was the great sorrow of both Theo and his late wife’s lives. Father and daughter begin a cautious rapprochement, a long conversation. Why did Alissa, who now calls herself Jolanda, leave ? Amid sudden intimacy, old wounds and political fault lines, Alissa and Theo try to work out whether, after all this  time, they can still have a place in each other’s lives.