What is truth? What is reality? How did we become who we are? In his new book "Punishment," Ferdinand von Schirach describes twelve destinies. As in his previous volumes "Crime" and "Guilt," he illustrates how difficult it is to do justice to a person and how hasty our concepts of "good" and "evil" often are. Ferdinand von Schirach never passes judgment. With calm, detached composure and yet full of empathy, he tells stories of loneliness and alienation, of the pursuit of happiness and failure. His stories are narratives about ourselves.