Berlin, 1943: At Plötzensee, 20-year-old Liane Berkovitz is executed by the Nazis. Young love and her contempt for the Nazi dictatorship have made her into a resistance fighter with the Schulze-Boysen group. Decades later, an elderly woman is walking along the streets of Berlin; unkempt, with long, snow-white hair. Everyone who lives there has seen her, but barely anyone knows who she really is: a millionaire, and the first-hand witness of Liane’s momentous life.

Los Angeles, 1959. The aging filmmaker Curtis Melnitz is tormented by nightmares. He is in dire need of sleeping pills – but can only get them if he regularly visits the psychoanalyst. On the analyst’s couch, he reluctantly recounts the story of his life, from Hollywood to Berlin, from the black-and-white, silent dream factory to the garish and glaring German reality of the early 20th century. A chapter for every appointment on the couch. A life like a novel.

Switzerland in the near future: the cities have merged into a large metropolitan area and is flourishing, while extensive sections of the Alps are declared zones restricted for electricity production. Scientist Alesch returns to his native village of Pradetta, a remote locale in the shadow of a glacier. But strange weather phenomena appear on the mountain more and more often, and soon Alesch is torn back and forth between the primitive mountain landscape and the high-tech future. Because his research, as revolutionary as it is risky, could hold the answer to the energy crisis. And then there is his first love Annetta ...

After going to the cinema with her best friend, a woman gets into her car and drives home – until a diversion takes her off her usual route. She misses exit after exit, straying further and further from home, where her husband is waiting for her. Within a night and a day it becomes clear: perhaps it would be better if she never went back to him. Because as unsettling as the darkness of the highways and gas stations may be, the true danger is waiting for her at home.

For Auggie Schnuck, the future looks brighter than ever before: he has achieved almost everything as a wrestler under the ring name The Aug, and he’s planning his future with Nadine, the love of his life. If only it weren’t for his self-doubt: can he, Auggie Schnuck, really stand his ground in front of the whole world? Wouldn’t being a husband and father be simpler in the role of the unbeatable Aug? An artfully narrated novel about dreams that come true and lead to the edge of sanity and reality; and about artificiality, conflict, and tenderness.

At the University of Athens, the humanities are under increasing financial pressure, while technological and economic subjects are being funded. Many students are vehemently opposed to these policies. When a maths professor is found dead, the suspicion immediately falls on the young agitators.
Costas Haritos and Antigoni Ferleki investigate, but soon lose their way in the labyrinth of Greek educational institutions.