The Zahir

　　"A novelist’s search for the wife who left him without an explanation takes him on a long journey from France to Central Asia, where he discovers something new about the meaning of life, marriage, and his own celebrity."

　　When Esther, a war correspondent, disappears with her friend Mikhail, her husband, a well-known author, becomes the target of an investigation that leaves him questioning his own existence until Mikhail reappears to lead him on a journey.