Howard belsey, a rembrandt scholar who doesn't like rembrandt, is an englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to kiki, an Am...Howard belsey, a rembrandt scholar who doesn't like rembrandt, is an englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was.