Apuliya, 1921 god. V malen''kij gorodok na yuge Italii priezzhaet molodaya anglichanka po imeni Klehr. Po nastoyaniyu muzha, izvestnogo arhitektora Bojda Kingsli, ona dolzhna provesti leto v gostyah u ego bogatogo klienta Leandro Kardetty, s kotorym ee muzha svyazyvayut zagadochnye otnosheniya v proshlom. Klehr ostaetsya stroit'' ob ehtom lish'' dogadki... V dome Kardetty nahodit vremennoe pristanishche i ego plemyannik EHttore. On eshche ne znaet, chto ehto leto stanet samym sladostnym i samym gor''kim v ego zhizni, svetlym otbleskom, prezhde chem "opustitsya noch''".Vpervye na russkom yazyke!