A traffic collision involving a disaffected commercial producer, James, and an enigmatic doctor, Helen, brings them, along with James's wife, Catherine, together in a crucible of blood and broken glass, and it's not long before they are all initiated into a kinky, death-obsessed underworld of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists for whom twisted metal and scar tissue are the ultimate turn-ons. "For this icily erotic fusion of flesh and machine, David...

A young orphan smuggled out of Poland during World War II, poet Jakob Beer, comes to understand the extraordinary power of language to destroy, restore, and witness as he struggles to cope with both grief and the healing of memory. Jacob Beer, a man whose life is haunted by his childhood experiences during WWII. As a child in Poland he is orphaned during wartime then saved by a compassionate Greek archaeologist. Over the course of his life, he attempts...