For the high-flying, heavy-drinking advertising boss Tom Banbury, the
art of persuasion relies on an infiltration of the consumer's mind. In
the case of his colleague and confidante Nikos Gazidis, the
overdeveloped sense of empathy that makes him so well suited to the
business has resulted in a strange psychiatric condition. Nick has
unwittingly crashed into the consciousness of his boss.
While Tom drinks to forget the troubles of his earthly life, Nick is
forced to confront a past that is not his own: a childhood scarred by
the small wars waged by an abusive father--and by the events that
brought these battles to a close. When Nick enters the panicked silence
of the Abbey, a fortress for the rich and unstable, his sister guards
him from the visiting Tom Banbury. But can this peculiar bond be broken?
Or has Nikos Gazidis taken an empathetic leap too far?