This is the story of a love triangle: between an ageing and apparently repulsive priest; his beautiful young wife; and her lover, a doctor who will stop at nothing - perhaps even murder - to have her. There are always three ways of telling this kind of story, and here we get inside the mind of Gregorius, the troubled priest and the difficult husband, who is also a man only gradually beginning to understand himself during the course of what could be his last and fateful summer. In his brilliant re-imagining of the love affair first described in the great Swedish classic, Doctor Glas, Bengt Ohlsson has created a compelling study of loneliness, longing and the nature of love; the desires that bring people together and the fears that keep them apart.