The daughter of a notorious occult magician was, at ten, taken into care and adopted by a militantly evangelical priest. At twenty, she was convinced that she was inevitably damned. At thirty five, she began to have second thoughts. Now, at forty two, she has some harsh words for both God and the Devil, but, one gloomy day in November, she learns that her natural father, the magician, has been stabbed to death by her adoptive one, the priest.