Gilles experiences an incomprehensible attraction to a ninety-eight-year-old man. He can't sort out his feelings. Perhaps this is love. But the ruthless chief of the gendarme brigade intends to put an end to this disgrace. At first, for Gilles this is just an exciting fetishistic game, but he will have to pay dearly for it.

The novel by film director Alain Guiraudie continues the themes of his famous film “Stranger by the Lake”. The book received the Marquis de Sade literary prize in France.

“Here the Night Begins” develops the intrigue of the film “Stranger by the Lake”, becoming almost its continuation, and events develop in an unpredictable way. Guiraudie borrows the techniques of de Sade and describes in detail unreal and creepy scenes that can traumatize the psyche of an unprepared reader. But one cannot help but notice in his pornographic fantasies a share of innocent childish eroticism.

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