A journey through the Brazilian jungle and a fateful letter. When Richard receives a letter on his eightieth birthday, everything suddenly changes: his dark past catches up with him. It has been fifty years since he returned from the Brazilian jungle. During a two-year journey through indigenous worlds, the Jewish emigrant Himmelfarb accompanied the ethnologist and racial researcher of the Third Reich. Without him, Richard would have been lost, yet that ultimately does not prevent him from betraying his friend. Is it really Himmelfarb who is now demanding retribution? Michael Krüger's gripping novel set in South America during the Nazi era. Michael Krüger compellingly portrays a fateful male friendship against the exotic backdrop of Brazil. He vividly recounts their experiences in the jungle.