In a fantastical Europe, where the concept of citizen has been replaced by that of professional, two friends, an artist and an intellectual, undertake a strange mission: they are appointed as escorts for an innocent prisoner facing the death penalty.
His trial is conducted publicly as they travel to the execution site, crossing the mountain ranges of Haemus, the Carpathians, the Alps, and the Pyrenees. They are hosted by city-castles, city-theaters, city-sanatoriums, city-monasteries, city-libraries, city-brothels, which make up the members of the court.
All the residents of Europe are jurors, who must decide whether the defendant's innocence is merely a twisted guilt, or if the judges' discernment is nothing but a refined slander...
A book with elements of a road novel, political thriller, and gothic fairy tale. A journey on the edge of concepts with successive twists. An exciting odyssey that presents us with two major questions: how dangerous can the certainties of "well-governed" democracies become and where lies the essence of political innocence or guilt?
By the author of the book "What Lot's Wife Saw?" (Prize from the magazine de(κατα) - "Athens Prize for Literature 2008")
