Seat 7A

Author's name: Sebastian Vitzek

Mats Krüger, a renowned psychiatrist, has always believed in numbers and statistics: flying is nineteen times safer than driving. But this belief doesn't cure his severe fear of flying. Nevertheless, for the sake of his pregnant daughter, Nellie, who is waiting for him in Berlin, he overcomes his fear and boards a plane.

Because he didn't believe in coincidences, he took a seemingly insane precaution: he bought the three most statistically safe seats and added seat 7A, the most dangerous in case of an accident, just to keep it empty. Just in case! But fate had something else in store for him. When he was forced to give up that seat to another passenger, the call came in that would turn his world upside down: "Nellie is being held with me. Convince the pilot to crash the plane... or I'll kill her."

Mats is thrown into a diabolical game: he must cause the deaths of hundreds of innocent people on board the plane to save his only daughter. To do so, he must delve into his dark professional past and manipulate the mind of one of the passengers he once treated. As the plane flies over the ocean, a Darwinian battle of pain rages within Mats: the agonizing pain of losing his daughter, which threatens and paralyzes him, begins to devour all other pain, even the immense moral turmoil of committing a mass murder. Which pain will ultimately prevail: the father's anguish or the doctor's conscience?

Can you imagine yourself in his seat? Would you destroy an entire plane to save her life?