It was July. It was raining... I was a fool to be here, a fool to be clothed in morning dress, a fool to have drunk half a bottle of Scotch the night before...'
K has returned from his hermit-like existence in Chile to attend the wedding of a girl he once loved to the point of obsession. He arrives at the church to find it empty and silent. The wedding has been postponed . . .
When K first saw Claudia fourteen years earlier, he fell instantly and dangerously in love. But K was married and Claudia was twenty-four years younger than him. Perhaps it was no surprise that their love proved ultimately to be tragic. Now K returns to find Claudia on the verge of a very different future. But as they are inexorably drawn to each other, long unanswered questions surface . . .