Περίληψη: | In an attempt to rationalise experiences whose perplexities continue to torment him, the distinguished philosopher Ludwig -we learn nothing of his surname, only that it is an impressive one- revisits the English convent where, many years before, he first glimpsed the red-headed girl at the window. She, he vaw told by the nuns, was mad; he refused to believe them, and unravelling the mysteries of the girl's identity and history became an obsession. Beckoned along dark corridors, ushered into dimly-lit turrets, his curiosity excited at every turn by ambiguity and parado, Ludwig finally fled the convent in terror and confusion, his quest unresolved. Now, forty years on, he is determined to seek the enlightenment that has eluded him for so long...
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