Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Micky Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic & exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress
- an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring exceeds even his own
- Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft & grieving, besieged by the ghosts of those who loved & hated him most, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness & extinction.