Cuando era niño, los padres de Roland Baines lo enviaron a un internado. Allí, lejos del amparo familiar, tomó lecciones de piano con una joven profesora llamada Miriam Cornell, con quien tuvo una experiencia fascinante y traumática a partes iguales, que marcaría su vida para siempre. Los años, sin embargo, han ido pasando: Roland ha viajado, ha vivido en distintos lugares, se ha casado y ha tenido un hijo. Pero cuando su mujer, Alissa Eberhardt, lo abandona sin dar ningún tipo de explicación, los cimientos de su realidad se tambalean, y se ve obligado a reconstruir todos sus recuerdos para tratar de entender lo sucedido.
As a child, Roland Baines's parents sent him to boarding school. There, far from family protection, he took piano lessons with a young teacher named Miriam Cornell, with whom he had a fascinating and traumatic experience that would mark his life forever. The years, however, have passed: Roland has traveled, has lived in different places, has married and has had a son. But when his wife, Alissa Eberhardt, leaves him without explanation, the foundations of his reality are shaken, and he is forced to piece together all his memories to try to understand what happened.