Andreas Lüscher is by accident a psychologist. However, since he has taken up a position as a talk therapist in the oncology ward of a hospital, vocabulary determines his working day: dose group, recurrence risk, pair formation. The person who stands in the middle rather than being observed, who maintains distance rather than examining up close, the relationship between patient and doctor, the importance of communication, of words. Until one day on the medical records of a patient he sees a name he knows, Meret Etter, with whom he shared an intense love a few years ago. She is a woman he mingled with during the youth unrest in Zurich, when she could forget herself in playing the harp, a lawyer who fought with passion against injustice. Now she faces a fight of another kind. And there is the question of whether the re-encounter with Andreas Lüscher, after sixteen years of mutual silence, changes their situation. And whether it is wise for both of them to deal with the reasons for this silence.--Cataloger translation of publisher description.