His name is Victor Apfel, he is 50 years old, he is a veteran of the Korean War, an epileptic (consequences of wounds and captivity), an unsociable recluse. One day the phone rang in his house, and he was asked to go to the house of a neighbor, a certain Charles Kluger. Victor practically didn’t know Kluger, he was a strange man who didn’t communicate with anyone, but the calls were repeated every ten minutes, and Victor still came to see him...