A somewhat successful and rather controversial writer discovers that a member of a group he was in years ago is in a mental institution. This other writer's illness is peculiar and unknown to his psychiatrists; everyday he acts like his characters, taking on the personality of a different character. The writer becomes obsessive about these transformations and goes to visit him almost every day. As the narrator documents his visits to the hospital, his life grows more surreal, as the line between fiction and reality
