Where forbidden love meets unspeakable evil
When Manny Hoffman and Rudi Klein are arrested and sent to Dachau’s notorious concentration camp, neither expect to find in each other something worth living for. Thrown together by chance, a tender and unforeseen relationship blossoms against a background of unspeakable evil. As they attempt to hold on to their humanity and each other, we also see glimpses into the lives and deaths of other camp inmates, showing that there is more that connects us, than that which divides us.
Berlin, 1942. Manny Hoffman is desperate to escape the confines of living with his mother at the age of twenty-three. Rudi Klein is a popular part of Berlin’s underground gay scene, with a plan to fool the Nazis.
When both are arrested and transported to Dachau’s notorious concentration camp, neither expect to find in each other something worth living for. Thrown together by chance, a tender and unforeseen relationship blossoms. In a place of unspeakable evil, can they hold on to their humanity and each other, when every day could be their last?
From new novelist Katie Moore comes a tale of forbidden love in the face of unspeakable evil, that highlights a lesser-known side of the Holocaust and explores the lives, hopes, agonies and deaths of other prisoners. Her debut draws you into the desperate world of concentration camps; whilst reminding us that beauty can be found anywhere and hope contained within the human spirit never dies.
TO BE LAUNCHED: September 2025
