Synopsis

Michele Tessari is a lawyer who doesn't want to be a lawyer, a former undertaker, suffering from bipolar disorder, trapped in life like a hysterical but willing, even complicit, guinea pig. A "weak accomplice" of the world he's immersed in. The decay of his homeland is mirrored in the decay of his existence, tainted by a hatred "that spreads like an infection, from ankles to mouth," where it transforms into a cry. And that cry assails the political class, prisons, the justice system, the university system, all the way down to individuals, and even the narrator himself, imbued with the very evils he rails against. It's a cry articulated by apocalyptic writing, with a portentous evocative violence. There's no consolation in these pages, no catharsis: only literature. And, in literature, "courage" means, above all, telling the truth. This is the country of things that are dying. No. This is the country of bodies. A country full of bodies. Bodies that wake up dead, leave home dead, come back dead; bodies that park, get out, spit, bodies that greet each other, yawn, curse constantly, bill. Walking bodies.