T Singer begins with thirty-four-year-old Singer graduating from library school and traveling by train from Oslo to the small town of Notodden, located in the mountainous Telemark region of Norway.
After a few years together, the couple is on the verge of separating, when a car accident.
But Singer unexpectedly falls in love with the ceramicist Merete Saethre, who has a young daughter from a previous relationship.
There he plans to begin a deliberately anonymous life as a librarian.
T Singer begins with thirty-four-year-old Singer graduating from library school and traveling by train from Oslo to the small town of Notodden, located in the mountainous Telemark region of Norway