A haunting addition to contemporary fiction, this compelling work explores memory, reconstructed and recalled, as a burden of choices. This is a disturbing story about the trauma of torture that agitates the reader into empathising with the victim who moves in and out of consciousness. While disjointed memories of betrayal, torment, love and suffering can deceive and destroy, yet they can also save and anaesthetise. It is as though this is a chronicle of our times, but one where the human spirit triumphs over tyranny, occupation and repression.