An unknown elderly man hires detective Chris Pappas to inquire into a young German woman, Eva Dempling. Chris will follow her in a Hamburg hotel where she meets her lover. The next morning, the unknown man who had called Chris, is found dead, hanged in the room Eva spent the night.

Chris follows Eva in Greece, back to his home village. She is dead when he finds out that the unknown elderly man was Anton Rot, the writer of the novel The Diver. His son is a doctor who cares of children with serious health problems, and he had co-starred in an amateur film with Eva Dempling. Why does a short movie drag everyone into the cruel secrets of the past?

The detective must watch the movie in order to revive the cruelest truth…
A stunning novel where the boundaries of good and evil are blurred and self-sacrifice is synonym to murder.

Nominated in France for the prize Violeta Negra-Occitanie and the European Book prize.

Ikaros, 2018, 248 p.