Nothing better than conflicting, paradoxical sensations to awaken complete sensations on the two poles of the human condition. Olivier Norek has written a thriller that looks out on the almost apocalyptic tension of his compatriot and contemporary Franck thilliez, but who also knows how to balance the plot with that point of humanity that is manifested in the author who empathizes with his own characters and who is capable of offering them a small space of light, a hazy hope amidst the condemnation of unfavorable circumstances.
And nothing better to fix that apocalyptic space than to delve into the most ominous reality of a known, tangible, real place. A dark world under our soil whose reality falsifies the fiction posed, which brings its violence closer and which raises doubts about whether something like this can be true ...
The story focuses on the autumn of 2016, no time travel to discover the harshness of living for some exiles who seek in the French port of Calais their passport to the English city of Dover and their salvation. A place that in our reality ended up becoming a refugee camp and in which unleashed violence, xenophobia and the most visceral hatred finally forced its closure.
Adam, our protagonist, a policeman from Damascus, thought that the search for his family previously sent to the jungle of Calais would be easier. But he has not just found his own ... And that is where we see the present of our world as a thriller for migrants who know little about Brexit but about survival.
Nora and Maya, wife and daughter, are lost in the shadows of that zone 0 of humanity in which the worst of our condition flourishes in the form of evil interests in which the lives of others are nothing more than meat. The appearance of seven corpses represents a turning point for a plot in which hopelessness looms at every moment, so brutally true for a Europe that sometimes believes itself free from migratory nightmares in the western interior of the continent ...
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