A private plane cuts through the winter night, somewhere over Greenland. David, a retired executive, sits back in his leather seat. The notebook in his jacket pocket is filled with familiar phrases, urgent reminders to himself, but he struggles to recognize his own handwriting. Cody, his assistant, will shepherd him along the voyage. A stopover in London. Dinner with his adult daughter. A meeting in France with an old friend, estranged for decades. His final destination is Zurich. David glides through hotel rooms, airports and foreign cities, running out the clock on his mortal life. His grasp on the present slips away, and the past rushes in. As David’s arrival in Zurich looms, an exquisitely rendered portrait of an unraveling mind emerges.
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