He would make falling a dance step, fear a ladder, sleep a bridge, searching a meeting.
This is the story of a young man in desperate search for himself and the true meaning of his life. Almost absorbed by a brilliant intellectual bohemianism, his inner drama evolves underground, exposing the fundamental misconceptions that had been frustrating his existence and suffocating his vocation. Is The Appointed Encounter the story of Fernando Sabino? Yes, but it is not an autobiography. It is the tormented story of an entire generation, in its essentially dramatic form. Amidst life's confusion, a search for a value that gives meaning to the disconcerting personal experience of someone engaged in a duel to the death with a furtive vocation. A story of adolescence and youth, of fleeting pleasures, despair, cynicism, disenchantment, melancholy, and boredom, which accumulate in the mind of the young writer Eduardo Marciano, a man maturing in a disoriented world. He sees his marriage break down when he can no longer abdicate; by virtue of his own experience, suicide ceases to be a solution. In this tormented landscape, he must renounce himself, to appear at the encounter with an ancient truth.