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Laura is on her way to Nice to bury her mother. Stranded in Avignon, she rapidly writes her story about the fatal love with Sylvia. Abandoned by her husband because they cannot have children, Laura begins a relationship with Sylvia. After Sylvia confesses her love for Laura, she secretly runs off to start an affair with her beloved's ex-husband. In a compelling narrative, Mulisch intertwines the fatal love between Laura and Sylvia with the classical tragedies of fate of Orpheus and Oedipus.