This multiple award-winning novel, celebrated by the French press as one of the most profound and deeply moving new releases of the year, reflects the connections between memory, guilt, empathy, duty, dignity, and the sense of honor in humanity. In a desolate setting, whipped by sand, blood, and wind, in the dark basements of Algeria, where torturers gather around naked bodies, fate has brought three men together in a place united by a pain that has a different face and language for each of them. Against the backdrop of Algeria in 1957, Ferrari traces the searing path of literature beyond good and evil towards the unfathomable truth of humanity, once hell has established itself on earth.