In a remote Albanian village, a place of banishment, a stranger appears, claiming to be Viktor Dragoti and looking for his long-lost love. That Viktor Dragoti has been dead for nine years, killed by the Albanian coast guard while trying to swim to freedom, only adds to the stranger's mystery - and to the suspense of this curiously real and yet otherworldly work by one of Albania's most distinguished writers. With echoes of "The Return of Martin Guerre" and Kafka's "The Trial", with allusions to "The Odyssey" and the Albanian folktale of Ago Ymeri, a legendary hero released from the underworld...

In a remote Albanian village, a place of banishment, a stranger appears, claiming to be Viktor Dragoti and looking for his long-lost love. That Viktor Dragoti has been dead for nine years, killed by the Albanian coast guard while trying to swim to freedom, only adds to the stranger's mystery - and to the suspense of this curiously real and yet otherworldly work by one of Albania's most distinguished writers. With echoes of "The Return of Martin Guerre" and Kafka's "The Trial", with allusions to "The Odyssey" and the Albanian folktale of Ago Ymeri, a legendary hero released from the underworld...