Whilst working as a waiter in a Berlin hotel, Maurice Swift meets Erich Ackerman. Erich offers Maurice the opportunity to travel with him as his assistant as he goes on tour to promote his latest book. Maurice is a budding writer himself. Erich tells Maurice about his life as a teenage boy, about how Jewish people were treated and how he fell in love with another young man. Maurice encourages the story telling and uses this to his own ends. He is a good writer but lacks the inspiration to know what to write about.
Years later when Maurice has made a name for himself and is married, he is again struggling for inspiration and tells his wife that he is writing during the day whilst she is at the local University lecturing. He has already stolen stories from others and is about to do the same again.
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