We meet a man named Margesson, who suffers from a mentally ill wife and two harmful children. Unfortunately, Margesson will soon not only die, but also his offspring. Traveling to Ireland – the author was Irish – plays a decisive role in understanding the strange sequence of events that are deeply rooted in the past. The darkness of Brock’s books is more fashionable these days than when they were written, but his sometimes dense, sometimes elliptical style confronts him.