The town of Ederly exists beyond time, on the border between the reality and dreaming. It may seem that it exists only so that the protagonist, Słow, could get there. The town is besetting him, while he is endowed with new identities. In a villa he’s thought to be the son and brother gone missing years ago. At the clergy house, initially – a monument conservator, then – the priest’s farmworker. And that’s not all.