The Story Teller

In this mysterythriller based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith Nico Thomkins Udo Schenk a writer and his wife Helen Anke Sevenich are in the habit of playing games with one another Even while they are breaking up they are sufficiently in tune with one another to continue this practice When the writers wife takes off without leaving a note behind people begin to suspect that he may have murdered her and he plays along with this notion to the point of planting clues which would incriminate him Obviously no one with a shred of common sense would do such a thing and these tricks get him into trouble However his troubles dont really begin until he starts to search for her in earnest