| It is 1966, and Calvin is fourteen, torn between his naturally volcanic sexual curiosity and a fundamentalist family so strict that he has never seen a movie, watched television, or danced. But at the Hotel Riffelberg, a supposed safe haven from the sinners listening to jazz far below in Zermatt, Calvin nevertheless falls into the hands of Eva, a young waitress who begins Calvin�s initiation. Even so, it is only after his mother catches him in the act�or so she thinks�that Calvin�s real education begins. The resulting family meltdown builds to a climax destined to push Calvin�s childhood into the past. |
