Coldness is the ultimate act of defense in a world driven by chaos.
Lena grew up learning that emotion is a miscalculation. Driven by the trauma of loss, she becomes a brilliant Engineer, determined to achieve the precision of Formula 1 and escape Germany, a place that symbolizes disorder and pain.
In Berlin, she maintains two relationships as mere variables in her life equation: Klaus, the crude and predictable boyfriend, a safe harbour for stability; and Thomas, the former lover and logic genius, whose obsession with her serves as intellectual validation.
But when Lena's intimacy is used as a weapon in a male conflict, her logic is violated. Her meticulously planned escape to Italy transforms into a mission of surgical revenge. She must deactivate her targets—one by one—to ensure a total system cleanse before the reboot of her life.
Throughout twelve years of self-imposed exile, Lena discovers that the biggest hardware failure is not in the codes, but in the human heart itself. Will the Engineer manage to reach the F1 finish line without succumbing to the one variable she could never program: the need for a human connection?
A story about cold ambition, trauma, and the price of excellence in the world of zero error.
