With the Alfred Hitchcock material "Psycho", "Angst" and "Krankenakte Robert Schumann", the actor Matthias Brandt and the pianist and vocalist Jens Thomas have created great melodramatic evenings that offer great theater in a small format. In the meantime, the ex-television commissioner has also become a writer himself. In his new work "Blackbird", his debut novel, Brandt tells the story of a youth in the seventies.
When 15-year-old Morten Schumacher, known as Motte, receives a phone call, nothing in his life is as it once was. His best friend Bogi is suddenly very ill. Shortly afterwards, Jacqueline Schmiedebach from Einstein High School rides past him on a Dutch bike, and the next shock takes its course. Between these two poles, the possibility of death and the possibility of love, events continue to escalate, spiral out of control and present Motte with unknown, painful challenges.
