What if your child wrote to you one day from the future—from a world that you yourself helped to create?
In the year 2055, Mira looks back on a life between two realities: in one, humanity dared to do what was possible – in the other, it hesitated too long.
Der doppelte Horizont (The Dual Horizon) tells both stories, side by side, like mirrors of the same soul: one world with +1.5 °C global warming and one with +3.8 °C.
As a child, Mira loses her parents in a flood disaster on Lake Constance. Years later, she works as an activist in international aid projects, fighting storms, droughts, and the silence of those who still hold power.
She meets Leo—an engineer, idealist, skeptic. A love develops between them that is as fragile as the world they live in. Together they meet Samina Khatun, a young woman from Bangladesh whose village is facing survival or destruction.
Three destinies, connected by hope—or by loss.
Kai Brielmaier’s novel unfolds like a mosaic of two futures: a race between technology and humanity, between responsibility and repression.
Every decision, every gesture, every omission draws a line across the horizon—and shapes what remains.