In the quiet countryside, where a dark river moves without hurry, Gerard Roylake
returns to the place of his childhood. Yet the world he steps into no longer feels familiar.
At the old mill lives Cristel, the miller’s daughter, and with her a lodger whose beauty,
suffering, and silent desperation create a presence that cannot be ignored.
The lodger has lost his hearing, and with it, his place among others. What remains in
him is an intense and consuming love for Cristel, ...