
A number of people gather at his bedside. He is rushed to hospital, where he spends the following days slipping in and out of consciousness, and in and out of memories of the past. In 2016, Saul Adler is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. And he will befriend a hippy, Rainer, who may or may not be a Stasi agent, but will certainly return to haunt him in middle age. He will fall in love and brood upon his difficult, authoritarian father. There he will encounter - significantly - both his assigned translator and his translator's sister, who swears she has seen a jaguar prowling the city. Saul leaves to study in communist East Berlin, two months before the Wall comes down. They have sex then break up, but not before she has photographed Saul crossing the same Abbey Road. He is apparently fine he gets up and goes to see his art student girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. In 1989 Saul Adler ( a narcissistic, young historian) is hit by a car on the Abbey Road.
