The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman

When his late mother appears in a vision and tells him to go to Bucharest, a young man (the Charlie of the title) immediately boards a plane across the Atlantic. But when he meets a fellow passenger, he finds himself with another promise to fulfill. He does so, and falls head over heels in love with a beautiful musician. However, a vicious gangster has already laid claim to her, and has no intention of letting her go. Determined to protect her, Charlie enters into the hallucinatory, Romanian underworld filled with violence and, strangely enough, love.