Mama & Sam

The mother is gone, and so is every penny of her savings. Sarah Kuttner tells the story of a woman who went looking for love and found a love scammer instead - a woman who fell for him, turned a blind eye, died suddenly, and left nothing behind but an almost endless chat log with the fraudster.

Her novel Mama & Sam (S. Fischer 2025) draws on personal experience: Kuttner's own mother fell victim to exactly this kind of insidious scam. What began as something deeply private became something universal.

The evening with the host circles around guilt, the pain of being left behind, and the unwanted intimacy of a stranger's digital legacy.