Cesar doesn't know why he should live. The woman he loved died, and the world without her lost all meaning for him. He cannot convey anything to his little son except his melancholy, and therefore the boy will be better off without him... Cesar gave up, capitulated, admitted that he no longer had a place among the living. And at the very moment when he was ready to leave forever, there was a knock on the door of his apartment. On the threshold is a young woman, beautiful and mysterious. A neighbor whom Cesar had never met. She has a Greek accent, is excellently educated, and she knows how to listen. Thus begins Cesar’s journey into the life of a stranger and through the recesses of his own soul. The new novel by one of the most interesting contemporary writers, Christophe Ono di Bio, is a little bit of a parable, a little bit of a philosophical novel, a love story, a story of father and son, a story of finding oneself in today’s chaos and the orderliness of ancient Greece. The novel involuntarily brings to mind “The Magus” by John Fowles - the trajectory of Cesar’s search, like the path of Fowles’ hero, is determined by ancient Greek myths. This is a new interpretation of the legend of the Minotaur, and we wander through the labyrinths of our world - threatening, unpredictable, violent and yet beautiful.