Alexander fox, former owner of an antiquarian bookstore in San Francisco, journeys to a fictional andorra, a country both beautiful and perilous, following an unspecified accident which has left his wife and daughter dea...Alexander fox, former owner of an antiquarian bookstore in San Francisco, journeys to a fictional andorra, a country both beautiful and perilous, following an unspecified accident which has left his wife and daughter dead. Sun-splashed but oddly deserted, andorra affords a personal refuge to fox until a series of strange events occur.