A devil, cast out of hell for the sake of his heart, wanders in search of his place in the world. Between pleasure and vice, sensuality and poetry, he encounters not only nymphomaniacal aristocrats, fools, and stone gods, but ultimately also someone who seriously threatens his life over a chair. "But we only gave names to the devils so that we could call upon them from then on." Told by the author in a dense poetic language and underscored by the powerful illustrations of Sergej Schell, the odyssey of the banished devil leaves readers and viewers in awe, amusement, and shivers until its inevitable end. "Perfection? No, that is never the devil's own. Rather, he must be born quite flawed to develop the right envy for less flawed things...".