This story opens when Karl is an adolescent in Vienna between the wars. He is handsome, intelligent, popular and has every advantage. But all is not what it seems in a situation full of political tensions and erotic undercurrents. Entranced by his own reflection, he basks in the light and sees his life changing irrevocably.
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