A contribution to the history of joy

The suicide of a wealthy older man soon turns out to be unlikely. The perceptive police officer tirelessly investigates the real reasons for this strange death, which leads him to a mysterious house under Petřín Hill. The mysteries and motives increase as do the hours spent with the young widow. But the main characters are three, maybe four women, educated, bold and committed to a higher justice, according to which the victim and the guilty lose their original duality. And in the echoes comes the burning question: how much more violence and wars await us before all this misery finally humanizes man? However, the author’s grotesque novel, rolling like lava, also speaks of the need for touch, for “bodies do not lie and their memory does not deceive”. And the free beings, for whom kindness is more powerful than the laws of the rulers – the swallows – have a direct pull in the book.