Claude Dehaene is a journalist, war photographer. Violence, human misery, became his daily life. But, back in Lebanon; it is no longer the same man, his conscience is dead there.
It is in an isolated farm near British and Polish military cemeteries - in the North of France - he plans to cut the world.
But while his family could have helped rebuild; it is a diabolical scenario that is taking place to destroy the protagonists of this story. We enter the "farm of horror."
The author sets the scene in his native North, Lille, Bethune, the sea, wells, military cemeteries, the limestone quarries of the Middle Ages, Calais and immigration to the UK ...
A richly documented book about the complexity of the human brain and the diseases that result.
The central character is the victim of a dissociative personality disorder that attempts to understand and alleviate a psychiatrist. It survives almost a psychic cliff, thank you to her troubles.
Malfunctions that can lead to manipulation, enslavement, an evil organization of psychological destabilization.
The themes of revenge, guilt and redemption are also very present in the novel.
We can not in any way deny the important work of documentary research conducted by the author.
However, I am somewhat left hungry about the history and outcome.