The story is like Rafflesia, a flower which is beautiful from a certain distance, but smells like a corpse. The book is about passionate love, sins, fears, human dignity and... terrorism. Antoine, the protagonist, is a middle-aged, married Frenchman who learns about his wife's infidelity. It seems that the upcoming business trip to Morocco is exactly what he needs. Antoine travels to Marrakech to attend a conference, at which he becomes acquainted with Annalisa - a peculiar, mysterious ...