My son betrayed me. It is a family tradition.
Didn't I do the same to my father?
The World War intensifies in Europe. In Zurich a writer breathes his last imagining his life till now from his childhood in Dublin.
The voices of his family circling him - wife, son, daughter - carry him to his end as he hears each separate chapter chronicling the power of their passion for their famous father, their love, their hate,...