"Butterfly" is a very famous novel by the French writer Jean-Dominique Bobel, which became a historical bestseller. The book tells the story of one of France's most famous prisoners, Jean Claude, known as the Butterfly. It is based on real events that the author experienced in the colony in Cayenne. Bobel beautifully describes life in a prison cell, the life of passengers, convoys to the western regions of French Guiana and hopeless attempts to escape. The novel is permeated with various feelings - from a sense of freedom to desperate fatigue from hopelessness. "Butterfly" is a book that makes you think about human strength, faith in freedom and hope for a better future. A novel that will leave a mark in the heart of everyone who followed the heroes and wished them liberation.