Summer evening. Luxury villa on the outskirts of Rome. Leo Pontecorvo, his wife Rachel and their two sons sit down to dinner. A few more moments, and the monstrous accusations against the respectable head of the family, uttered from the screen by the evening news anchor, will change their lives forever. An outstanding pediatric oncologist, a beloved professor by students, a husband and father, adored by his loved ones, who never knew the need for anything. ... It would seem that nothing could interfere with the confident well-being of Leo Pontecorvo. Did he have to pay dearly for this happiness?

Illustrations by Werther Del' Eder

Piperno describes the descent into hell... The plot is in the spirit Georges Simenon is executed with the precision of Philip Roth. With long, winding phrases, sudden accelerations, and rebellious humor, Piperno creates a portrait of a bourgeois who thought that misfortune would not touch him...

Le Figaro Littéraire

Piperno is endowed with an amazing ability to create “living” heroes, force the reader to share their suffering. Ruthless and ironic, it allows us to touch the terrible destruction that a media society gone mad can wreak, inviting us to reflect on the fragility of life's "success".

Marianne