Four stories dealing with the dialectics of enlightenment and the randomness of love, birth, and death.

Four stories dealing with the dialectics of enlightenment and the randomness of love, birth, and death. Aleks participates in an experiment facing civil war in former Yugoslavia. Sarah tries to escape loneliness by investigating a murder. Bastian must deal with his father's decision to die. Anna dances with a foreign man. How destructive is the unlimited search for insight? Should one lie in order to protect a loved one who would be destroyed by the truth?—Anonymous