Vienna triangle

Kate, a young woman, looks into a family link she never knew about: a connection to the founding years of psychoanalysis and the ideas of Sigmund Freud. The story is built on the documented lives of Freud, his associate Helene Deutsch, and his rival Victor Tausk, whose personal and professional entanglements are imagined in detail. Its premise is that these relationships may have shaped how the early history of the field was written, and not always honestly.

When Kate learns that Tausk was her grandfather, she starts digging into the circumstances of his death, which was apparently self-inflicted. Her search leads her toward what really happened, and as the pieces come together she also has to weigh what the discoveries mean for the choices ahead of her.