The Universal Theory

It’s 1962 and Johannes Leinert, a gifted Berlin physics student, is attending a high-profile quantum mechanics congress at a hotel in the Swiss Alps. When a physics professor is murdered and radioactivity starts leaking from a forgotten mountain shaft, this auspicious trip quickly turns into a nightmare. As Johannes gradually loses his grip on reality, he comes across some shadowy Nazi-era conspirators, meets two odd village children and falls for Karin, the mysterious hotel pianist, in a playfully spiralling narrative where the dead can no longer be distinguished from the living.