It's 1937, and Katya-- working as a servant girl on a Trakehner horse estate in East Prussia-- dreams of being a writer. One hot June day, with Thomas Mann as her muse, and Minna Epstein as her friend, Katya heads to Rauschen, a spa town on the Baltic. Helmut and David, the estate owner's two sons, accompany them. The foursome pairs off-- Minna and Helmut, David and Katya-- and things go from peaceful and predictable to dramatic and unsettling. By...