Alexander Popescu is a university lecturer in a quiet German town. Heâs a respectable man in his thirties who stays fit, has a decent career and travels aloneâhis only vice is an occasional greasy meal. And beer. And violent computer games. Nobody has to know about the other Alexâthe acclaimed smut writer. His ingenious fantasies earn him good money and keep his capricious mind harmlessly entertained.
When his young friend and protĂ©gĂ© Christian transfers to Freiburg for medical school, Alex is overjoyedâŠand terrified that Christian will find out about Alexâs indecent alter ego. The time they spend together, as lovely as it is, could overturn Alexâs carefully balanced life. Suddenly, the writing is not good enough, his hair seems to be thinning, his careful hookups leave him unfulfilled, and his dreams are haunted by the innocent young man heâs vowed to protect.
However, Christian is not a boy anymore. Heâs a grown man of twenty-one, clever and deadly attractive. And heâs hiding some secrets of his own.