At seventy-three, Herz is facing an increasingly bewildering world. He
cannot see his place in it or even work out what to do with his final
years. Questions and misunderstandings haunt Herz like old ghosts.
Should he travel, sell his flat, or propose marriage to a friend he has
not seen in thirty years? The letters he writes and does not send and
the passers-by he encounters remind him how out of touch he is, how
detached from the modern world. Yet Herz believes that he must do
something, only he doesn't know what this next big thing in life should
be...