A cultural critic's journey from emotional detachment to profound acceptance of love and mortality through his relationship with a former student.
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Isabel Coixet
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