When Emilie suddenly suffers a brain aneurysm during a skiing holiday, her husband Johan is brutally torn out of his previously comfortable life. This prompts him to review his past life, starting with his childhood on an "organic" farm and his career as an engineer in the GDR, to the fall of the Berlin Wall and what happened afterwards... Johan, alias "Blender", under which name the protagonist the Stasi, the East German secret police, has been a teetotaller, with many temptations in many places... In addition, the death-defying adventurer discovers his passion for mountaineering; he wants to conquer the highest peaks on earth, whatever the cost. But will he be able to defy the borderline experience of death?