Benjamin and Helen Rusk seem to have been made for each other. They are eccentric semi-recluses who have the status of celestials and unprecedented wealth. He's a financial marketer, she's a charity worker. Suddenly, Helen's anxiety starts to grow, sprouting up in incoherent monologues. Will Benjamin listen? Will he be able to pull his wife out of the darkness of madness? Almost all of New York City learned about the death of the heroine from the first pages of the novel Obligation by Harold Wenner.