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He was closest to finding out their secret before taking part in patricide, a crime the universe doesn’t easily excuse.

“It is a story about patricide and the consequences,” he said by phone from Lyon, France, referring to the death of the Marquis of Calatrava.

Dreaming of patricide — symbolically, for now — is the glue binding them together at present.

This is all unfortunate, because it clouds the story’s inherent dramas: patricide, assault, forced eviction, flooding, racism, pseudoscience.

Lamb Rated R for matricide, patricide and kidnapping.