Pierre Sonnage, a failed writer, sees his only chance for fame in suicide and promptly jumps from a skyscraper. However, instead of landing in bestseller heaven, he finds himself in the writers' hell. Here, he encounters not only Dante, Kafka, Hemingway, and all the other VIPs, but he also has to face riddles that are as convoluted and cryptic as those he knows only from his own novels. An absurd journey begins.