A woman wakes up in the middle of the night.
He lives a quiet, orderly life.
He, the author decides, is named Alvar Eide, forty-two years old, single, works in a gallery.
He is so desperate that he has resorted to breaking into her house and demanding that she begin.
The woman is an author and the man one of her characters, one in a long line that waits in her driveway for the time when she\'ll tell their stories.
She lies there in silence, paralyzed with fear.
A strange man is in her bedroom.
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night