Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a philosopher and researcher of the human soul, writer and film director, one of the most successful European playwrights, a man who, in his books “The Gospel of Pilate”, “The Sect of Egoists”, “Oscar and the Pink Lady”, “ Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran”, “Another’s Share” asked questions to God and Pontius Pilate, Buddha and Mohammed, Freud, Mozart and Denis Diderot. The reader is invited to a new collection of his short stories “The Dreamer from Ostend”, where Schmitt, as always, offers brilliant, exquisite and... completely unexpected plot moves.