What can you do on a small Mediterranean island in the off-season if you are over forty and are a writer? Of course, by creating a new book. And if you are twenty-five and you are a literary agent, an extremely mobile, active person and accustomed to a completely different rhythm? The measured island life cannot cause anything but boredom. This is what Tina thinks at first, but only until the realization comes: this island is not at all as simple as it seems at first glance. And everything that happens on it is strange and frightening. It is filled with mysteries, which are impossible to unravel using conventional ideas about the essence of things. And yet, the solution is somewhere nearby, behind the door of the writer’s imagination; all you need to do is find the key. And you need to hurry, otherwise the island will absorb your mind and make you its eternal captive...