Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer living a very private life in Maine. Until one wintry morning, when his solitude is disrupted by the arrival of a package postmarked Berlin.
What is more unsettling is the name accompanying the return address on the package: Petra Dussmann. For she is the woman with whom Thomas had a intense love affair twenty-five years earlier in a divided Berlin where people lived fearfully under the shadows of the Cold War.
And so Thomas is forced to grapple with a past he has always kept hidden. Because Petra Dussmann was a refugee from the police state of East Germany. And her tragic secrets were reweite both their destinies.