sentences:  Brande's paranoid need to be loved and respected are focused on his hobby, a manuscript on Malebranche, a French philosopher, and on his 9-year-old son Nicholas.Nicholas is a delicate child who has been reduced to a state of invalidism by his father's overprotective and restrictive regime.At San Jorge, the Brandes take a villa for which a couple, Garcia and his wife Magdalena have been engaged to act as butler/chauffeur and cook/housekeeper.