One pupil of an orphanage grows up and takes revenge on everyone who abandoned him. One sophisticated thief steals the painting he stole. One book looks from the shelf as one future Nobel laureate goes crazy on the day of his long-awaited triumph. One writer writes a novel and threatens the publisher to commit suicide if the book is not published. One former soldier, already completely out of his mind, still cannot forget the lost battle and the death of his comrades on the battlefield... Jaume Cabret (b. 1947) is the biggest star of Catalan literature; his books have been translated into dozens of languages, their circulation exceeds a million copies, and his landmark novel “I Confess” has received numerous awards. “When Darkness Comes” is a dazzling kaleidoscope in which stories of heartlessness, stupidity, anger, greed, misunderstandings, misunderstandings, terrible and funny human souls, people at the mercy of circumstances and passions are mixed and intertwined. Here everyone has blood on their hands, everyone kills - accidentally or on purpose, at the call of the soul, out of duty or supposedly out of necessity, in reality or in dreams - and there is hardly one absolutely innocent victim. When darkness comes, everyone will be guilty.