Verano

A young English biographer prepares a book on the late South African writer John Coetzee. His research focuses on the thirty-year-old Coetzee, at a time when the writer shared a ramshackle house in Cape Town with his widowed father and in which, in the young biographer's opinion, he was beginning to find himself as a writer. Without having known him personally, the biographer embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important in his life: a married woman with whom he had an affair, his cousin Margot and a Brazilian dancer, mother of one of his English students . From their testimonies emerges the portrait of a somewhat clumsy young Coetzee, surrounded by books, with little facility to open up to others and given over to his urgent need to write.