Summary
Michael Cunningham: In the stillness of the day
A middle-aged married couple is getting ready for an evening out. They have been together for more than half of their lives, everything is settled, impregnated with long and deep mutual knowledge and love. Predictable? No challenge? Not quite, because a guest arrives who brings the restlessness of re-examination, emotional confusions, unexpected recognitions in the longing for the beauty and meaningfulness of those moments of mortality that chain together seemingly by chance and confusedly, without the protagonists even being aware of their default...
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