Born in a town on the border of Denmark and Germany, Manfred Jurgensen has always been sensitive to boundaries and what's beyond the borders, emotionally and physically. After suffering a nervous breakdown while lecturing in Switzerland, he is confined to a luxurious sanatorium for mentally disturbed patients called Humanitas. There he is asked by the psychiatrists to write about his life experiences, including his own awareness of the Nazi era and what it meant to be one of 'Hitler's children'. Jurgensen's life story unfolds in the highly original form of a 'bio-novel', revealing family secrets and a traumatic past. Wide-ranging ideas and multiple voices (including a ghost) blend with philosophical explorations into the roles of coincidence and desire, literature and the power of words, imprisonment and freedom.