Unspoken

Stefan is a working-class man - or would be, if there was any work! - when he meets Adri and they begin an affair. Married with children, Stefan resists this development in a society where homosexuality is legal but scarcely tolerated. Nor does he understand when Adri warns him about the territorial ambitions of Hitler's Germany, which their country will be unable to oppose. In a daily battle against guilt, poverty and other, more tangible enemies, Stefan and Adri struggle to hold on to a love which should never have existed at all - but which may be the only thing helping them to survive.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 220 pages

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