En una noche oscura salí de mi casa sosegada

With a title extracted from some verses of Saint John of the Cross, "On a dark night I left my house calm" is an intriguing plot of intrigue around a pharmacist from Taxham, a town near Salzburg, that one day of rain, for no apparent reason, undertakes a mysterious journey across the border. He is alone, his wife and children are away from home. Through the incidents that occur to him, Handke, Nobel Prize for Literature 2019, invites us to take a journey into oneself, a journey through the fears, ghosts and loneliness that haunt today's man, in a narration on horseback between the magical and the real, the love story and the adventure story.