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In the Nazi concentration camp, she chose to let her son live and pushed her daughter to the crematorium; in order to survive, she was forced to print reports on the massacre of Jews for the Nazis; she endured molestation, rape, and perverted insults from German doctors, guards, and even housekeepers... After the war, she came to the United States and fell in love with Nathan, a Jew. With a guilty conscience toward the Jews, she silently endured the tyranny of her suspicious and manic lover in order to relieve her heavy spiritual burden. Every time this happened, their minds and bodies, pain and pleasure, intertwined and reached a climax. Ding Ge, a writer who loved her deeply, took her away from Nathan. But after a passionate lovemaking session, she chose to return to the insane Nathan, return to the bed intertwined with pain and joy, and go to death... This book is a milestone in the history of Western novels. It won the National Book Award and was named "One of the 100 Best English Novels of the 20th Century" by Random House.

After World War II, the young writer Stingo met the Polish woman Sophie and her lover Nathan in their apartment in Brooklyn. The three admired each other and quickly became friends. The beautiful and sad Sophie attracts Stingo deeply. Sophie is a survivor of the Nazi concentration camp. After the war, she came to the United States and fell in love with the talented Jewish artist Nathan. However, the relationship between the couple seems to be passionate, crazy and tense. What makes Stingo particularly puzzled is that in the face of the suspicious and manic Nathan, Sophie always suffers silently and is unwilling to leave. Stingo became curious about this woman who seemed to be burdened with a mysterious spiritual burden, and gradually learned about Sophie's nightmarish past. Sophie had two children. In the Nazi concentration camp, she could only let one child survive. She chose her son and pushed her daughter to the crematorium. Later, in the process of inquiring about her son's whereabouts, she used her father's identity as an anti-Semite to accept him against his will. Serving as a pure officer... These painful memories have always tortured Sophie and made her unable to escape. Even if she gained Stingo's love, even if she had the chance to start a new life, Sophie still chose to return to her already crazy lover Nathan and go to death with him...