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A quiet household in a southern Swedish city is shaken when a mysterious young scholar named A— arrives at the invitation of the narrator’s husband, a university professor. Shortly after his arrival, a stormy night brings an unsettling tapping at the bedside, accompanied by a plaintive wail that cannot be traced to any source. The woman awakens, alarmed, and her husband dismisses it as a dream, yet the sound lingers in her thoughts.

The following day the town learns that A— has vanished, his boat found capsized on a lake with no sign of a body. Despite numerous searches, the missing scholar remains unaccounted for, and the narrator is haunted by vivid dreams in which he appears, half‑clothed and oddly content, pleading for someone to speak to her husband. These nocturnal visions blur the line between grief and something more uncanny.

Later, the woman experiences a startling dream of a raging fire in the nearby town of Wexiö, its only sanctuary a distant church tower. The recurring images suggest hidden forces at work, inviting listeners to follow her uneasy quest for answers in a world where the ordinary meets the inexplicable.