Twenty years after a horrific captivity, Magda's perfect life begins to crumble. Helpless to the resurgence of memory, she collapses inward. Through a haze of desire frighteningly evocative of the attack, she desperately attempts to fit together bits and pieces of self that existed before and after. The Theory of Light at Midnight is the story of the disintegration of personality, and one woman's attempt to reconstruct integrity with the truth of brutality intact.