Eva Bruhns is eagerly anticipating her wealthy suitor, Jurgen, asking her father’s permission to marry her, just as she begins a new translating job. But her mother has already expressed reservations about the suitability of the match, while Jurgen disapproves of his future wife even working. There is also the matter of the trial she will be translating for—civilians exterminated in camps. The reader knows what Eva is going to learn, but can only imagine how it might affect her.