The Regime is the perfect mechanism for the extermination of man. Its weapon is the agents of Security, and their relentlessly square logic. Its weapon is also the persistent distinction only between supporters and enemies.

A citizen suspected of conspiracy against the Regime must be eliminated. And since the only witness for the prosecution (or defense) is murdered by the agents themselves, the Plan is put into action: the citizen will be confronted with a supposedly friendly human behavior to break him or escape during his transportation for interrogation in order to prove his guilt and justify his extermination by Security.

However, during the journey, the inhumane rationality and mathematical perception of the Regime and Security will face an unforeseen event; a mistake. The citizen and one of the agents accidentally manage to share moments that are unconsciously human; a walk, the beach, a ball, the amusement park.

Is one grain of humanity enough to short-circuit the relentless perfection of the regime's Plan and the mechanism of extermination? The masterpiece of Antonis Samarakis, with Kafkaesque and Orwellian roots, has been translated into 33 languages, in 114 foreign editions, equally loved by critics and the reading public, awarded the `12` Award in Greece and the Grand Prize for Crime Literature in France, where it was also made into a film titled La Faille.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]