The hero, a specialist in architectural history, fascinated by the buildings that are the mark of a bygone era, was snatched child to his family and to his country. With the help of a narrator present, intelligent and mysterious, he goes in search of his past and identity. The rediscover partly piecemeal do not revive, does not do this, but instead shows the distance and the non-coincidence of what has been and what we are. The past and further, this is grief and learning the emptiness about the future it does not matter, except to suggest that the quest is endless, sansconclusion without culmination ..
