There he is then, all of a sudden setting off for Portugal, out of the blue and without any luggage. Already, even more so than the distraught young woman, it is the book’s author, a certain Amadeu ( Jack Huston), who begins to intrigue our guide, because the book, a sort of invitation to the voyage and the unexpected, represents what the professor has always wanted to write, and live. This enigmatic “White Rabbit” clad in scarlet, whom Gregorius will follow, has however left a Portuguese book behind, together with a train ticket for Lisbon, for immediate departure. ![]() The incipit is also misleading, with the solitary professor Raimund Gregorius ( Jeremy Irons) preventing a young woman in a red coat from jumping off a bridge, only to see her a few moments later disappear without explanation. ![]() The title is nevertheless deceptive: the journey it announces happens in a flash and all the action takes place in Lisbon.
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