A riveting psychological drama that challenges the way we understand others – and our own sense of self.

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Mia teaches school in Denmark. Her husband, Frederik, is the charismatic headmaster of a local private school. During a vacation on Majorca, they discover that a brain tumor has started to change Frederik’s personality. As he becomes harder and harder for Mia to recognize, Mia must protect herself and their teenage son from the strange, blunted being who now lives in her husband’s body – and with whom she must share her home, her son, and her bed.

When millions of crowns at the private school turn up missing, Frederik is the obvious culprit, and Mia’s private crisis quickly draws in the entire community. Frederick’s new indifference and lack of inhibition torpedo longstanding friendships, isolating Mia and making her question who he really is. Was the tumor already at work in the years they had been so happy together? And does it excuse Frederik from fraud?

Mia enlists the help of a lawyer named Bernard, whom she met in a support group for spouses of people with brain injuries. As they prepare Frederik’s defense together, the two of them wrestle with the latest brain research, the age-old question of free will – and their growing attraction for each other. Jungersen’s graceful prose and unexpected plot twists will keep readers hooked until the very last page.

You Disappear was turned into a Danish-language film, which was chosen as Denmark’s contender for an Oscar in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. The movie was directed by Peter Schønau Fogh and produced by Fridthjof Film.

International film rights are still available.

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