What happens when the universe of rules, reason, order and controlled disordercomes apart? How do intellectuals devoted to inquiry and reflection, offering work and refuge to the displaced react when they are displaced themselves? Losing their certainties, they are forced to return to an environment rich in its alien culture, but threateningand indecipherable. This novella travels with two sophisticates and their company to this new, alarming context, where theres only a wavering refrain from an ambiguous past.