Rehearsing The Fates

Two aging men reside on a mountain top in a contemporary medieval fortress: the one in the company of his youthful chronicler and the other in charge of a nubile daughter; together the old men design to keep the young couple apart. But the lovers manage to escape into the valley below and enter the mysterious world of a fortune teller, entrapment, madness, and murder.

Time, love, commitment, human purpose, history, old age, and the mysteries of human nature are a few of the many moving targets in the deteriorating judgment of a man’s muse that exposes the rawness of his creative urge to his nemesis: a Master Planner who refuses to be obeyed.
In a world of reminiscences, where time shifts and life’s purpose fades, any expectation of certainty out of the stability of a personal relationship is put into question; and concrete goals are subjected to the manipulation of a fate which intervenes from beyond the realm of the strictly human.

Where does the landscape end and its frame begin? How is the foundation of belief undermined by a delusional acceptance of the present? How is time present distorted by the memory of time past? Is death the final chapter?

But these questions as posed require more intricacy to invent them than the responses the plot provides as it unravels within the shrouded minds of two old men. The way in is not always the way out, just as the pathway ahead is not necessarily the way forward.