Melvill

Record and file, even if you'd rather not: It's the night of December 10, 1831, and Allan Melvill is walking across the frozen Hudson River. Starting from the figures of Herman Melville and his father Allan Melvill -traversing childhood days at the bedside of a hallucinated man and nights as a twilight writer who no longer wields a pen or harpoon- Melvill goes on the hunt for the enigma of the always orphaned vocation literature, the legacy of family stigma, the navigators of fiction and the castaways of reality.