In a cozy and beautiful Dutch resort town, among dunes and flower plantations, a tragedy plays out: a husband, a successful entrepreneur, kills his beloved (and loving) wife with a letter opener, with whom he lived for many years in a seemingly happy marriage . No, this is not a detective story, and the investigation ends as soon as it begins. The writer is trying to conduct another investigation here: how is it that two loving people can neither reveal themselves to each other nor hear each other, and this closeness, this silence ultimately leads them to collapse. Margriet de Moor’s book was a sensational success, translated into many foreign languages, it is now read all over the world.