Today: Rieke's marriage is over and she suffers sudden deafness. She is in urgent need of a rest – and nohwere is more suitable than her Sea Holly House on Spiekeroog.
1962: Viola returns to Spiekeroog. She wants to get her ailing mother away from the approaching storm tide, but her mother refuses her help. Viola would like to know why her mother would rather die than leave the island.
1933: To escape political persecution, Silvia tries to persuade her husband Joachim to flee from Berlin, and to seek refuge in Spiekeroog.
In the lives of three very different women, the trip to Spiekeroog constitutes a turning point. A moving novel about the power of nature, the meaning of love, and the power of truth.
