Actor Alexander Cleave is facing the stark possibility that his successful thirty-year career has come to an end. In his abandoned childhood home, he has isolated himself from his family and the world. Here, alone, without any audience, he believes he might finally stop performing and simply die. But he is not alone. There are the caretaker and the housekeeper. There are his memories. And there are the apparitions. . . . In the course of this brilliantly conjured and realized novel, Alexander Cleave will come to understand the ways in which things are not what they seem -- and the ways they reveal what they might be.