: She is confronted with a video of a woman confessing to the murder of her own family. The twist? The woman in the video, showing every sign of guilt through her facial expressions, is Hannah herself.
: The plot functions as a "locked-room mystery" of the mind, where the protagonist must use her skills to convict—or exonerate—a version of herself she no longer remembers. Mimik - Sebastian Fitzek EN
The novel explores the terrifying intersection of and the high-stakes world of micro-expression analysis .
: Hannah Herbst is Germany’s leading expert in facial resonance—a specialist who can read the tiniest muscle twitches to detect lies. However, after undergoing surgery, she suffers from severe memory loss.