When one has everything and gives up everything Ashok Oswald had this pool built after he amassed a substantial fortune at the age of 35. As he does every morning, he makes his way through the cool water, but this morning is special: three strangers force him to interrupt his ritual and hand over the manuscript that Peter Bischof entrusted to him many years ago. Ashok hands it out, but what is so significant about this book that these people seem ready for anything? To find out, Ashok gives up his old life. An abysmal novel in which literature and life intersect in the most original way.