Are we what we tell? Kurt Faller is found at the scene of a young woman's murder. Naturally, Faller tells the young prosecutor Suse Stein that he killed the Englishwoman. He allegedly has several other murders on his conscience as well. "I am what I tell," is Faller's credo, and so he embarks on a sweeping narrative that takes the reader and Suse Stein to Casablanca, Mexico City, Lake Garda, and Frankfurt - and back to the 1970s and 1980s. Kurt Faller is on the trail of his own life and that of his father.