<br/>Greece, summer of the early 1990s. The novel's narrator, whose gender<br/> and identity are not made explicit and are open to interpretation, <br/>meets at the dawn of childhood M, a boy just out of his teens, from whom<br/> it receives moments of free and untamed humanity, so marking that they <br/>become for the protagonist a "code that will dictate the ordering of my <br/>existence." The actual or imagined memory of this acquaintance will <br/>become the object of a consuming obsession that will be the only <br/>constant in the arc of life on the move, settling in various cities of <br/>Europe in the attempt to give each time a different narrative to that <br/>joint past, which flows inevitably into a present "of one without the <br/>other" from which there seems to be no way out. Through the <br/>acquaintances made over the twenty-five years following that fateful <br/>meeting, the protagonist gets to know itself, in a path of maturation <br/>parallel to the cult of Mithras. Each stage represents an opening to <br/>cross to reach its completion. Using a writing style that ranges from <br/>fable-like to "dirty realism" in step with the growth of the narrator's <br/>identity, the novel investigates the mysteries of eroticism, sexuality, <br/>and desire, as well as the sense of belonging and the inscrutability of <br/>an unbridgeable inner void.