Two children live alone with their authoritarian father on a vast estate where time stands still. The world they have created is limited to the philosophy they have read and tales of chivalry. When their father dies, they decide to bury him and unexpectedly clash with the inhabitants of a neighboring village, as a result of which their romantic and false veil is replaced by the terrible reality of their own existence. A magnificent, masterful novel in which nothing is as it first appears...