A manic trip into literary obsession that hides a deep-seated family trauma
Vince is a literary scholar obsessed with the 18th-century author Laurence Sterne. He is drawn into a manipulative scheme when a mysterious man offers him the lost final book of Sterne's masterpiece. Vince's manic pursuit of the manuscript unearths his family's deepest traumas, blurring the lines between literary passion, reality, and a dark, elaborate fiction.
As the present crisis unfolds, the narrative weaves in flashbacks of Vince’s mother whose sudden disappearance decades ago left a void the family tried to fill with linguistic games and various obsessions. Ultimately, Vince is forced to confront a reality that may be as constructed as the novels he adores.
