[...] Some more names are bandied, friends of her parents, her friends and their parents’ names. He knows all the anecdotes, everyone involved at some time with everyone else, first they were all young, then they had babies together, married, separated, fell in love, became enemies, friends, plotted or practiced withdrawal. Always the same people, at parties, in bars, at openings and premieres. In a small country with no easy exit, everything felt inevitably inbred. [...]