What kind of mystery is concealed behind the suicides of these psychoanalysts: Tatiana Rosenthal, Viktor Tausk, Wilhelm Stekel, Herbert Silberer? Karin Stephen, a sister-in-law of Virginia Woolf, and a psychoanalyst herself, decides to follow the biographical tracks of these figures who were all authentic pioneers of psychoanalysis, some of them even very close to Sigmund Freud. During a stay in Zurich, Karin comes across an unpublished manuscript, written by Otto Gross, an Austrian psychoanalyst who was admitted several times to psychiatric asylums for drug addiction. Otto's papers seem to her to contain illuminating revelations about these losers of psychoanalysis, whose lives seem to be interlaced through exchanges of letters, poetry and journal fragments. But is Otto's manuscript literary falsehood or authentic?In the end, Karin Stephen herself was to die in the same way as her colleagues to whose lives she devoted herself: she committed suicide in 1953 in Britain.