The young florist Frieda grows up in a strictly Catholic environment in the 1960s. When she steps onto a frozen river one late winter afternoon, she has no idea that everything is about to change for her. On the ice, she meets the married Otto. They experience a love that begins tumultuously and ends tragically: Frieda becomes pregnant – a scandal in the world she inhabits. Thus, she can never be a mother to her secret child. For decades, she keeps the memories of this episode of her life to herself. However, when she moves into a nursing home at over eighty years old, she begins to confront and share them.

"Contour of a Life" is the novel of a great love and its failure, the story of an incredibly strong woman who stands her ground against all odds.

Not a word out of place, not a sentence that doesn’t shine, and not a paragraph that doesn’t touch you to your very core.