It is 1945 - the end of the Second World War - and all of Europe is beginning to come to terms with the material ruin and social upheaval wrought by conflict. In southern France, Colonel Scott Kilmeade finds himself both blind and without any memory of his former existence. But Kilmeade has developed a heightened sense of hearing, almost supernatural in quality. In addition, he possesses the sometimes acute faculty of predilection. And it is with...