Miss Albrand has been writing this kind of ornamental, providential suspense story ever since Reichdom come and this one again pursues its renascence in modern Cologne where Andrew Waldron, a writer, via his attraction to one Bettina, becomes involved in her accident-prone entourage: an aging sculptor who leaps from a sanitarium; the death of her oldest friend Rudi. In fact Waldron himself wakes up to find himself in the sanitarium looking like? You'll have to take this at face value too.