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On arrival at The Cloisters it quickly becomes clear that this family is hiding more than just the good china

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The Naive and Sentimental Lover Egmont Deciding to go undercover onAldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife. Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.