Evil is not a matter of psychological perversions. The greatest atrocities are committed by perfectly ordinary people, if they are only given the opportunity. As in the anti-Roma pogrom in a small village in western ia in 1928, where during a nighttime lynchling six innocent citizens were murdered in a particularly brutal manner by their upstanding felllow citizens.
After three books set against an African backdrop, Marek Vadas returns home and, loosely inspired by this historical event, looks at the scene through the eyes of direct or indirect victims, witnesses and perpetrators alike.