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| For a 19-year-old student, danger is a married woman… |
Perennial student Oliver Mansfeld has taken life pretty lightly until now. A bit of Cambridge, a bit of Sorbonne, and lots of girlfriends attracted by his looks and his money – even if the latter comes from his criminal father. By chance, Oliver meets Verena, in her late 30s, a beauty as stunning as she is mysterious – and the wife of banker Manfred Lord, the city's wealthiest man and a good acquaintance of Oliver's father. As Oliver begins to see Verena more often, the two are engulfed by passion and cast all caution to the winds.
When Lord invites Oliver to join him and Verena on his yacht for an Adriatic cruise, the young man accepts – and becomes the plaything of the bitter and unpredictable banker, who knows about his wife's affair. After taunting Oliver by making love to Verena in front of him, Lord nearly kills the student in the sea. But Oliver is determined to fight back, and when he finds explosive top-secret information concerning illegal money transfers and arms deals in which Lord is involved, he blackmails Lord: either the banker releases Verena or Oliver will hand the data to the authorities. But this time, the hot-headed young man underestimates Verena, whose mystery is founded in fear, dependency and a need for security. Shattered, he realizes that for Verena, love is just a word…
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