The diver''s clothes lie empty

In Vendela Vida's taut and mesmerizing novel of ideas, a woman travels to Casablanca on mysterious business. While checking into her hotel, she is robbed of her wallet and passport - all of her money and identification. Though the police investigate she knows she'll never recover her possessions. Stripped of her identity, she feels burdened by the crime yet strangely linerated by her sudden freedom to be anyone she chooses. A chance encounter leads to a job posing as a stand-in for a well-known film star. The star reels her in deeper, though, and soon she's inhabiting the actress's skin off set, too - going deeper into the Casablancan night and further from herself. And so continuous a strange and breathtaking journey full of unexpected turns, an adventure in which the woman finds herself moving gurther and gurther away from the person she once was.