Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is one of the creators and most influential practitioners of modern English prose, the psychological novel, and the stream-of-consciousness technique. He founded the literary group Bloomsbury Circle, in which the XX. the most prominent English artists and scientists of the first half of the 20th century (T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, J.M. Keynes) were active.

In the novel The Lighthouse, a large English bourgeois family spends the summers on an island in Scotland. Mr. Ramsay, the tyrannical father, gnaws at his career even when resting, terrorizing those around him. The only wish of his little son, James, is to be able to sail to the nearby lighthouse, but the trip is often canceled because his father declares that the weather is not and will not be suitable for that. Mrs. Ramsay, the conventional wife and mother, the woman who cares about the smoothness of everyday life, the lightning rod for the sensibilities of the husband, the children, the friends, I like it, tries in vain to create harmony. The lighthouse looms over the sea like an unattainable dream. Time passes. The children grow up, the company decreases. And when they return after many years, everything is different.

Is it possible to relive lost hopes, is it possible to realize dashed ambitions? Can a link be created between the swept away old world and the new?