At 44, Hans lives a monotonous life in the shadow of his overbearing Italian mother, scraping by as a driving instructor in a small, unremarkable town. Despite his outward normalcy, Hans is haunted by fragmented visions of a lost love, a spectral presence that distorts his grip on reality. His daily existence is a fragile facade, constantly threatened by the haunting echoes of a past romance that refuses to fade. The boundaries between reality and illusion are stretched to their limits. As Hans’s world unravels, the story explores the dark undercurrents of his psyche, revealing the tragic consequences of living in the shadow of an idealised past and pursuit of a love that exists only in memory.