Told almost exclusively through dialogue, Konfidenz opens with a woman
entering a hotel room and receiving a call from a mysterious stranger
who seems to know everything about her and the reasons why she has fled
her homeland. Over the next nine hours he tells her many disturbing
things about her lover (who may be in great danger), the political
situation in which they are enmeshed, and his fantasies of her. A terse
political allegory that challenges our assumptions about character, the
foundations of our knowledge, and the making of history, Konfidenz draws
the reader into a postmodern mystery where nothing--including the text
itself--is what it seems.