His girlfriend Bea has left him without as much as a goodbye, after ten years together. His search for her takes the unnamed narrator, a screenplay writer in his early forties, to the sites of their love and his biography: Ticino, Basel, his father’s house in Aargau, Paris in May 1968 . . . In the New World, in San Francisco, the narrator finally finds Bea. And he discovers that his best friend Leo had something to do with her disappearance. Back in Europe to confront Leo, the narrator finds out he has passed away. In Berlin, he begins to write a letter to his dead friend: Dear Leo . . . Love and friendship, farewells and separations, looking back and setting out are the themes of this novel, written in the form of a long letter.