\'I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness.\' Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter\'s house in Vermont.. \'I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness.\' Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter\'s house in Vermont.