In the aftermath of a foreign war, a man puts up his tent somewhere on the west coast of France. Self-exiled from what he sees as the encroaching dangers of a life that doesn't fit, he falls into the gravitational pull of cosmic forces, themselves searching for their own accommodation.
He keeps a diary.
Moving from the cosmic to the deeply personal, Batten's honed language and poised imagery sustains this intense sequence with elegance.
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