Anna O. – Matthew Blake (2024)

The average person sleeps for thirty-three years. What are we capable of during sleep? And are we responsible for it? ***** Anna Ogilvy was a young promising journalist from a well-off family until one day she was found bloodied with a knife in her hand near the bodies of her two stabbed friends. Anna O. has been asleep ever since, and for the next four years, no one has been able to wake her. ***** Dr. Benedict Prince is a forensic psychologist and sleep disorder expert specializing in crimes committed during sleep. His innovative method to interrupt the 'resignation syndrome,' as experts describe Anna's condition, is the last hope for waking Anna and the possibility of a fair trial. Such a professional challenge is hard to resist… ***** However, the case of Anna O., the namesake of the patient from Sigmund Freud's book, is under intense scrutiny, and Ben must act cautiously. Not only does he face hateful attacks, but he also has a professional secret and a complicated personal life. Moreover, during the treatment, he becomes uncertain: did Anna really commit murder, or is there something else behind it? Only she knows the truth about what really happened that night. And only Benedict knows how to reach her. For neither of them, it may well not be a win. ***** What if our nightmares are not nightmares at all?…