No escape! Cordula Abramovicz is on her way to Lugano with her school class when their train unexpectedly comes to a halt in the Gotthard Tunnel. The train staff initially assumes a technical malfunction. However, when the power goes out and the communication network collapses, being trapped in the dark tunnel quickly turns into a nightmare for the 300 passengers. And Cordula Abramovicz knows that the race against time has already begun. Hans Leister writes a dark, gripping thriller with "The Tunnel," which unsettlingly and fascinatingly plays with our fear of the struggle for survival. "It was in May, it was a Saturday, and it was like always. I arrived at the Basel train station in the afternoon, went to the platform where the intercity train to Lugano was supposed to depart. The journey takes 57 kilometers through the Gotthard Tunnel, the longest tunnel.".