The Manuscript

March 10, l938, the evening before the Anschluss, two young scholars meet in a Viennese Rathskeller and discuss their work. A manuscript changes hands. They agree to meet again in three days. This meeting never takes place. The next day the manuscript disappears and the two young men are lost in the fog of war—one to flee, the other to die Twenty five years later the manuscript reappears and profoundly alters the lives of a prominent philosopher fearful of losing his reputation, an Auschwitz survivor striving to regain his sense of life’s meaning,and a lapsed nun attempting to restore her lost faith.