Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and
banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life,
but finds this impossible in a house brimming with presences, some
ghostly, some undeniably human. Memories, anxiety for the future, and
more particularly, for his beloved but troubled daughter, conspire to
distract him from his dreaming retirement.
This humane and beautifully written story tells the tragic tale of a
man, intelligent, preposterous, and vulnerable, who in attempting to
bring the performance to a close, finds himself travelling inevitably
towards a devastating denouement.