This novel gives rise to hope that a person can hide even from absolute evil. Hide from him, be stronger than any circumstances. Albert Weiss manages to survive the Holocaust, but memories haunt him throughout his life, like the sound of the train carrying his parents to Auschwitz and turning his younger brother into a bird. Many years later, while walking around New York, Albert stumbles upon the House of Memory and Oblivion - by going inside, you can forever forget everything that has tormented him for so long. But isn't it memory that gives us true knowledge about ourselves? And what if, in addition to the physical world, saturated with evil, there is another – subtle, otherworldly? Will the people he cares about disappear if Albert erases the painful images from his memory? The novel by Philip David, the preeminent modern Serbian writer, a patchwork of memories, letters and visions, illustrates Hannah Arendt's theory of the banality of evil and collective responsibility for what has been done and at the same time refutes it.