Crímenes imaginarios

Sydney and Alicia Bartleby, a young married couple, live in a small cottage in the English countryside. He writes, she paints. They have been married for several years and lead a very isolated life. Sydney is writing and trying to sell scripts for a television series, which would help alleviate their financial difficulties, while he awaits a response from an American publisher regarding a novel that has already been rejected by several publishing houses. Their relationship is deteriorating, and Alicia, to relieve the tension, decides, as they have done before, to spend some time in Brighton. This time, however, they agree that the separation will be indefinite, until she feels the desire to return. Sydney, whose imagination is running wild, fantasizes about what would have happened if he had murdered Alicia, instead of it simply being a temporary separation, and he begins to behave strangely. By imagining horrible things, horrible things end up happening that will leave the reader breathless.