"New York, February 13, 2006. Kurt Altman, a young man living in New York, suffers a sudden and inexplicable attack of amnesia. Convinced of an imminent bombing attack he flees the city, and heads south, drawn there for reasons he doesn't understand. On the plane he meets business psychologist Hannah Brown, the daughter of an immigrant Jewish family. A powerful sexual attraction, and their links with a German past, draws them together. Soon Hannah is drawn into Kurt's search for his identity, which ends in Dresden, Tennessee. And there he encounters a stranger who holds the key to unlocking his memory."--Publisher description.