Thomas lives on the bangs of his contemporaries. Whimsical and misanthropic, he has found refuge in the work of the great Russian filmmaker Alexeï Sobakin. Having just lost his job as a cinema host, he attends a strange party organized by film buffs who, like him, are devotees of the master. What appears to be an occult ceremony is the prelude to a series of disturbing events that lead Thomas into a netherworld where the boundaries blur between reality and Sobakin’s cinema, beauty and horror, comedy and tragedy.
This first novel, which plays with genres, looks like a burlesque, metaphysical and black investigation. It’s also a story of fascination, that of a gaze caught in an elsewhere from which it will never return.
