Description

Solitary, sitting at the window of the Wilkinson boarding house in London's East End, Spider endlessly rolls cigarettes between his fingers, where his anguish will burn. His gaze lost in the streets and passages where he ran as a child, he tries to bring back the scattered and confused pieces of his dislocated memory. Listening to the voices that haunt Spider's nightmares, as he writes in his journal to reconstruct the drama he has lived through, Patrick McGrath takes us on an unforgettable journey into the heart of schizophrenia and its demons...