“Something monstrous may have happened – or maybe nothing at all. Corinna, the fashionable, slightly neurotic maxillary surgeon with a helper syndrome who dreams of “patching up hare lips” in the Peruvian jungle and conducting a choir of healed patients, and Mr Hufschmied, the shy, but filthy rich landlord who keeps his mother’s ashes among his porcelain and, like a spider in a web, lurks in wait for a victim to feed his bachelor machine, beguile each other to gently swinging bossa nova rhythms like mewing cats in a love duet.
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