A tale of obsessive love. The bookstore owner is soon entangled in Severina's mystery: seductive and enigmatic, of uncertain nationality, she steals books. As in a dream, the disoriented man finds that the thin border between rational and irrational is no longer reliable.A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore. Soon he discovers that she steals in other bookstores as well, and is consumed with jealousy. He starts to live in a kind of loving delirium, on the border between fiction and reality, but the closer he gets to her, the more indescribable she becomes: Why does she steal and what are her values? Who is the older man she lives with? Will he accept this man who occupies his space? What is true or apocryphal in this story? And, in the end, will he conquer a place in her life as he moves away from his own?
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