When his son is killed by gangsters' crossfire on his way to school, Neapolitan taxi driver Matteo is consumed by despair.But just when he feels life has lost all meaning, he encounters a man who claims the living can find ways into the afterlife. And legend says that there's an entrance to the underworld beneath Naples. What if Matteo had a chance of bringing Pippo back from the dead?

Born in 1972, Laurent Gaud. is one of France's most highly respected playwrights and novelists. He has won many prizesincluding the Goncourt in 2004 for The Scortas' Sun, published in 34 countries.