Bernhard

Devastated by the loss of his wife, Bernhard disconsolately walks the

streets of Jerusalem, considering Gandhi, analysis, the beauty of his

wife Paula's neck, his Arab neighbors, Kokoschka, the Messiah, and the

inner life of his friend Gustav the plumber. As his hero tries to come

to terms with his grief and the disasters of WWII, Hoffmann shows the

slow remaking of an inner world.