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"When will you come back, son?" "Where have you been, son?" The thirty-six-year-old son of a writer lives in an apartment with his mother, a dramatist. For fifteen years, every time he went out or came in, he had to answer the same questions from his mother and weave different lies; for fifteen years, he imitated the tone of his defecting sister and wrote letters to his mother with his left hand. He kept leaving home in the name of readings, met his lover Judit, and met the female editor Qiao. Erdan learned the truth about his father's past as a secret policeman; in the past fifteen years, between countless "when will you come back" and "where have you been?", Day and night alternated, the seasons changed, political changes occurred, and Eastern Europe disintegrated. The world outside the window has long changed, but the cage inside the window still exists. In a strong, bold, impactful and shocking description, Balthus uses the almost crazy life of his mother and son to present the absurdity and madness of an era, as well as their depressing power. Everyone is a prisoner of human nature, trying to find inner peace in extreme love and extreme lust, just like the sea of ​​tranquility on the moon.