The shimmering world of Paul Auster: a professor, a mysterious woman, and a moment of happiness. Professor Zimmer, known from "Moon Over Manhattan," is a broken man since his wife and children died in a plane crash. Only the work on a book about a silent film comedian named Hector Mann, who disappeared in 1929, keeps him alive. Then strange things happen: Mann's long-lost films resurface. And one evening, an attractive brunette stands at Zimmer's front door with a revolver. "Cinema in the mind cannot be smarter, nor more entertaining." Brigitte.