The third and final book is about Katerina and her journey from comfortable inconspicuousness to elevation on the pirate gallows. This is followed by a fall straight into the underworld, where Katerina is already waiting for her legal husband and a daughter she has never seen, although she gave birth to her. And again, you can’t say whether the rise is fortunate, whether the fall is sorrow, and whether the devil is as terrible as he is painted...