A man accidentally finds in a volume of stories a story that accurately narrates the most bitter episode of his life: the murder of an enemy soldier. But it is not the memory that disturbs him, but the fact that the narrator is his victim: he is reading a story whose author can only be a dead man. Thus begins the strange search of the elusive writer Alexander Wolf. This exceptional psychological novel appears to us as a reflection on the ambiguity of life's vicissitudes: love, chance or even death can be ruin or redemption.