As a 15-year-old boy, Michael falls ill and is helped by Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), a woman in her 30s. They begin a passionate, secret affair where Michael spends much of their time reading literary classics aloud to her .

Hanna disappears without explanation. Eight years later, Michael, now a law student, is shocked to find her among the defendants in a war crimes trial for her actions as a Nazi concentration camp guard .

The narrative unfolds across several decades in post-war Germany, following the life of Michael Berg:

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