And somewhere, in the quiet attic of an old Bucharest flat, a dusty chest waited, its lock rusted open, ready to reveal the next secret to the next curious soul.
The novel is structured into , mirroring the number of cantos in a Dantean canticle. It follows the metamorphosis of its protagonist through three distinct identities:
: The story travels from the small villages of Romania to the courts of Queen Victoria and the mountains of Africa.