The Reader plot
"Behind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know."
When young German student Michael Berg falls on his way to school, he is helped by tram conductor Hanna. Despite being twice his age, Michael becomes completely obsessed with her. They surrender passionately to love and then he reads to her over and over, one book after another, the entire world literature. Until Hanna disappears overnight. When Michael observes the Nazi tribunal eight years later as a young law student, he suddenly faces Hanna in a completely different setting. Hanna is on trial for a terrible crime, but refuses to defend herself. Then Michael realizes that his childhood sweetheart is guarding a secret that she sees as a greater shame than murder.