The narrator and his wife moved into the house where he spent a bit of his childhood when his father died suddenly he was seven. From zero to seven years out of memory. Nothing is said, but it is assumed that he managed to carry about his life until anxiety attacks poison his life, hence the challenge: to settle in this house for s 'rebuild it gently to the rhythm of nature, according wonderful encounters, arise and subside. And learn to live.
A gem a must read. Really!