East End Elegy

In 2019, Michael Wicking, seventy-odd, in hospital dying, recalls his life. The child of a half-Irish Liverpudlian father and East End mother who brought him into the world in 1943, he reconstructs events from his past, partly for the pleasure reliving them, but also in the hope of discovering whether life, his or anyone's, has meaning or purpose.

In 2019, Michael Wicking, in varsta de saptezeci de ani, aflat in spital pe moarte, isi aminteste viata. Copilul unui tata liverpudlian pe jumatate irlandez si al unei mame din East End care l-au adus pe lume in 1943, reconstruieste evenimente din trecutul sau, partial pentru placerea de a le retrai, dar si in speranta de a descoperi daca viata, a lui sau a oricui, are sens sau scop.