Greatest of Vices

Professor Matthew Eastman walks into his office one afternoon and suddenly discovers that he's "e;forgotten"e; a year of his life. It is now 2005, but he doesn't remember anything from 2004. A therapist pulls him through his life, crisis-by-crisis and sin-by-sin, until they reach 2004. That was the year when he began researching a Russian novel that includes elements of black magic. That book, "e;The Master and Margarita,"e; slowly takes over his life and steers him towards where he doesn't want to go, an affair with a student that he doesn't want to remember.