Three intertwined narratives play out as the stories of an isolated loner, a depressed publisher and a real-life quantum theoretician in post-war São Paulo, become entangled. The closer each of these trails leads to the dark centre of the world the more reality disintegrates. Dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense drag each of the characters struggling into an absurd, labyrinthine world of seemingly infinite regress.