1958, Germany was devastated after World War II. Mike Berg (david kross), a boy of 15 years old who lives in Berlin, suffers from scarlet fever. When he came home from school, he suddenly fell ill and vomited. At this moment, a strange woman named Hannah (Kate Winslet) helps him.

After his recovery, he found Hannah to thank him, but they soon fell into a passionate secret relationship, even though Hannah was much older than Mike. Mike found that Hannah liked listening to him, and the power of his reading brought them closer together. Hannah is obsessed with reading one book after another. One day, however, Hannah suddenly left without saying goodbye, which made Mike secretly sad.

From 65438 to 0966, although Mike has forgotten Hannah, that relationship has always been his sweetest memory. During his internship in law school, he attended an audit of Nazi war criminals' trials before graduation.

Just then, Mike and Hannah met again, but what he didn't expect was that he never expected to meet Hannah like this. It turned out that Hannah had worked as a female guard in a Nazi concentration camp. Hannah confessed to the facts, and because she didn't want to expose her illiteracy in front of everyone, she admitted a felony that didn't belong to her.

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Hannah, 1

She worked as a female guard in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. After World War II, everything in Germany was depressed. Hannah is a bus conductor and works hard on the bus. In the trial of Nazi war criminals, Hannah was ignorant of the law and confessed to the charges. Because she didn't want to expose her illiteracy in front of everyone, she accepted the responsibility that didn't belong to her.

2. Mike

Living in Berlin, Germany, I am young, unstable, autistic and indifferent. I accidentally got sick and met Hannah, the bus conductor. When the feelings deepened, Hannah suddenly disappeared mysteriously, as if she had never existed.

3. Mike (middle age)

Middle-aged Mike is calm and mature, but he has never been honest enough, because after Hannah went to prison, Mike endured extreme anxiety and guilt. In order to make up for his previous debt to Hannah, he insisted on sending tapes loudly for Hannah, but he could not forgive Hannah for being a concentration camp guard. It is this extremely contradictory mentality that caused his contradictory behavior.

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