Choice: Stingo, our young Southern narrator. Manuscript reader for a major publisher...or...a genuine novelist soaking up the experiences that one day will re-emerge as stories of great power and precision.
Choice: Nathan Landau. A charming sophisticate possessed of great intelligence...or...a classic schizophrenic, a manic depressive with a consuming distrust of his lover's fidelity.
Choice: Sophie Zawistowska, the Polish Catholic immigrant, forever stamped with her decision in a Nazi Concentration Camp.
Having already chosen between her homeland and freedom, she must ultimately choose between life alone and death in the arms of her lover.