Ralph often went hunting, but he never returned with any catch. His wife thought it strange that he always took a spyglass with him, but she said nothing. When Ralph’s son was old enough, his father took him hunting too, to the hill by the lake in which women bathed.

Two weeks after her divorce, Viola called her husband Laurent from a friend's phone. 'Yes?' he answered. In the background Viola heard loud music and young women giggle. She hung the phone and wept. Putting down his receiver, Laurent stopped the audio recording, and his empty bathroom became again silent.

Centuries ago, a sad queen visited a chocolate shop, where she ate mint candy. 'Divine!' she said, and she made the young chocolatier her lover. The queen's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great granddaughter, tasted one summer day, in a small and dusty chocolate shop, mint candy. 'Divine!' she said, looking at the young chocolatier...