A chance encounter with a movie producer leads to a job posing as a stand-in for a well-known film star. The star reels her in deeper, though, and soon shes inhabiting the actresss skin off-set, too going deeper into the Casablancan night and further from herself. And so continues a strange and breathtaking journey full of unexpected turns, an adventure in which the woman finds herself moving further and further away from the person she once was.

Told with vibrant, lush detail and a wicked sense of humor, The Divers Clothes Lie Empty is part literary mystery, part psychological thriller an unforgettable novel that explores free will, power, and a womans right to choose not her past, perhaps not her present, but certainly her future. This is Vendela Vidas most assured and ambitious novel yet.