A disenchanted hero, detective Hugo Boloren, investigates a series of sordid crimes in a lawless region between France and Belgium where misery reigns. This captivating dark novel is sublimated by a unique and singular style full of empathy and melancholic poetry.

Since Dover, things haven’t been great for Hugo Boloren. He walks around the police station, almost apathetic. So, when Captain Grosset gets an appointment for his mother in a Lille clinic, he is happy to accompany them.

Coincidentally, the day before his departure, he hears on the radio that a child was attacked in France’s largest landfill site, on the Franco-Belgian border, just next to a slum—a “terra nullius,” a land without a master. Hugo’s instincts whisper to him to check it out…

Thanks to the two Lille detectives, the most sordid criminal case of Hugo’s career will be solved.