A Journal Away From Life

In the first chapter you find Peter Sebastian, a lonely widower, on a plane to Italy to identify the supposed corpse of his son, Luke. As he travels, Peter reads Luke's left-behind journal in hopes of figuring out clues to his mysterious death. What he does find, is rather different, as his son had a secret relationship with the young and beautiful Saskia Einreihner, a German exchange student who captured Luke's heart. As Peter enters Luke's world, he soon figures out that he isn't finding out how Luke died, but more or less finally realizing how his son lived.