Tyrol, Austria, Autumn 1988
Convalescing in a friend's remote hunting lodge in the Tyrolean mountains, Liz Landmann strives to heal herself by writing about the events that caused her breakdown.
A successful art director and co-owner of a top London advertising agency, Liz had been looking forward to her marriage to film director Pierre Altenberg. They were working together on a screenplay based on Stifter's classic novel Der Nachsommer - Indian Summer, transposing the plot from the Austrian Monarchy to the United States of the Founding Fathers, a project currently arousing opposition on both sides of the Atlantic ...
Then Liz discovers that her business partner is plotting to sell their company behind her back - and there is yet worse to come! Her little brother, who was close to his breakthrough as an installation artist, has a terrible accident ...
