Son of Sleep and Night, his appearances in the night took the forms of persons or things to dream.
Morpheus always carried a bouquet of poppies which, touching the eyelids of the sleepers, gave them realistic illusions.
was often represented in the act of her father, sleep, surrounded by the spirits of the imagination
The gist of the story is that Morpheus is back in his ancestral village to uncover the terrible secret which marks his family, and this creepy and excite the reader.
Roberto is back to reality by invading in the compartment of a passenger. Inevitable presentations. This is the Occult professor, literary scholar, from the first glance that understands its main limitation: the naivete. The unwary reader is dangerous for himself and for the same book, is the theory of concealment. The eminent Dante scholar Robert warns, warning him that the ingenuity with which he is lost in reading might hold some surprises. But Roberto is certain of his facts. The train slows sharply. Robert sees a small figure that out the window just fell, progresses through the fog toward the deserted little station. It 's you! The woman who took up the scarf! Bewitched, enchanted even, down from the footboard and goes behind, losing once in the night. The train starts without him. The phone has no field. Roberto is lost, first in the ghost train, then up a long driveway, finally, in the seemingly deserted village square. It attracts the dim light of a tavern. He enters. And it is a fatal admission, because the landlord and the customers are similar to those of Book fatal. This is not a country that the nineteenth century, but it is a particular country, in which the modernity of our times struggled to impose themselves. No car, public phones banned from municipal ordinance in the architecture of the village, its own money for the amusement of tourists ...
Faced with Roberto is also Morpheus, in conversation with the landlord. And it is just as well as the naive player had imagined! Even today's Totig Morpheus has just arrived in town to investigate the evil secret which marks its noble lineage. Robert can not help but stick their nose. Morfeo follows and performs parallel investigations meeting very special people: the romantic-mayor pharmacist who tells him his great love threatened by the evil Count in the distant past Totig (ancestor of Morpheus), the amusing trader Stella Angel, the old man of the sea, the diabolical Dr. Etrom
... Reading the book, which houses the chamber locatagli innkeeper, allowing Roberto strategies to combat and prevent Dr. Etrom, the evil antagonist of Morpheus. But most of all player ranks alongside the heroic Matilda, the courtesan who brought him this far and for which he now lives a deep platonic love.
Roberto comes to the gates of hell. It defeats the guardian, Boris, ripping and burning all the pages of the book Morpheus is cited in which the giant keeper. Then enter hell and save Morpheus from the clutches of Etrom, Count Totig alias, alias the Evil
... End of story. Roberto wakes up, stretches and starts to look out the window of the compartment. With a great cry: he concluded the book and is still in the room at the inn! Running down, throwing the dining room. The characters in the book - gathered to celebrate yet another happy ending - rubbed my eyes in seeing him before. It never happened that a reader would remain imprisoned in the country after the last line of paper! Shall consult on what to do. They say they even Etrom - very friendly person outside the narrative scheme - And Fra 'Vincent, who throughout history had seen Roberto die murdered. It seems all an absurd situation intractable. A meeting with Matilda but free makes the naive reader, but only when he can convince himself that she's a wonderful idea and, as such, can take it away and keep it for ever to himself ...
Roberto finds himself in the compartment, and then finally in Bologna, the stream of travelers on the pavement of the track. His daughter Simone is there waiting for him. Her face is concerned and inform him of the presence of a strange man who claims to know him. Roberto looks in the direction indicated and remains open-mouthed. Extracts from the book travel bag Morpheus and the pastry: it is immediately apparent lack of pages torn from himself to destroy the keeper of the gates of hell. Stands out among travelers the massive figure of Boris - eradicated from the country of paper - that comes up and asks him with an anguished whisper: "And now, Robert?"