To survive the tragedies that have crushed him, Aaron Alanetich, a crazy writer, has taken refuge in a provincial town, in a neighborhood for the wealthy, hoping to find there a semblance of a taste for life and a taste for writing. To strangle his solitude, he has welcomed Mila into his duplex, a young homeless woman, an Esmeralda who fell at the foot of an ATM, and his stowaway, Eugène, a brown rat. Without more inspiration, on the edge of the abyss, the suicidal writer continues to drag himself to the factory, to "pretend" to work - like the others - and ensure their subsistence. When he begins to receive mysterious Pizzini - "small pieces of paper used by the Sicilian mafia for secret messages. - he knows that he is cornered, that the stranger who overwhelms him with little accusatory phrases knows him better than he knows himself and that he will not let him go. The time has come to write his last book, what other choice? But to write it, he will have to confess to a heinous crime and his pen must not tremble. You are holding in your hands a work written by a murderer!