D. M. Thomas

It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of the twentieth century, and an attempt to heal them. Interweaving poetry and case history, …

Fifty years after the Holocaust a group of survivors gathers in London. They are about to enact a baroque Freudian masquerade with backdrops by Munch and music by Mahler. Unsuspectingly they scratch at each others secrets, for each character's identity is in some way hidden.