Chapters 10 and 11 Summary

In Chapter Ten, John takes the idea of a three-part movie based on Rousseau's Confessions, each section at somewhere around three hours in length, to Aram. John meets up with Faithfull at a gathering and he is talking to an actress, Monika Alt. John has rented a house in the country in order to work on the script for "Confessions" and Monika meets him there regularly for sex. Aram's father, Duric, is dying and insists that John and Aram both promise to make Confessions into a movie. They do and after Duric's death, the two men begin planning for the film. Sonia gives birth to twins, Emmeline and Annabelle.

On Christmas of 1926, John is with his wife, children and in-laws at home when the phone rings. It's Doon and she tells Sonia that John has to come because Karl-Heinz is ill...