A multilayered graphic novel about parents and their children — about the legacies that never reach their destination, the tension between dystopia and utopia, and the stories we create to make sense of reality.
In the fractured dystopian city of Berlondon, small-time criminal Auguste Quelque’unide takes his estranged teenage son on a surreal, night-long journey meant to pass on his twisted legacy. As they encounter cults, false prophets, and the looming presence of an entity called Artifex, Auguste’s growing desperation reveals deeper secrets beneath the strange odyssey.
Meanwhile, in five parallel Interludes, we meet Art, a forty-something graphic novelist — a new father drowning in doubt. Art has always considered himself a cynical nihilist, utterly unfit for fatherhood. When his son Peter is born, his world collapses into uncertainty. “What kind of father will I be? Do I have anything worth passing on?” Tormented by these questions, he begins writing Epistles to Peter a testament of the wisdom he believes he has gathered throughout his four decades on Earth and fails miserably. So, he turns to what he knows best: he begins creating a graphic novel, The Adventures of Auguste Quelque’unide, for his son to read when he comes of age— a legacy made of ink.
Structured through Chapters, Interludes, and intimate Epistles, the story gradually reveals a hidden third voice one that has quietly shaped events from the margins, guiding creator and creation toward a shared awakening.
Each narrative layer begins with its own distinct visual language, shifting from expressionistic cartooning to detailed realism, before gradually merging as the boundaries between fiction and reality dissolve. In the liminal “Exodus,” where styles and worlds converge, the characters step beyond their story toward an ending that is both closure and rebirth — a meditation on authorship, inheritance, and the unseen forces that hold stories, and lives, together.
2025, 240 P.
