Origami is the art of paper folding. According to Eastern philosophy, Origami brings calm and teaches patience to whoever practices it. In the West the practice is inspired by the creation of ‘nothing or ‘almost nothing’.
Ana met the writer Carlos Pacheco when she was scarcely a teenager and shared twenty years of her life with him. Amoral, passionate and brilliant, Carlos was, for better or worse, the most extraordinary thing that happened to Ana.
Situated on the border between life and death, High Heaven is an unusual site of pilgrimage, an abandoned town which holds a mysterious attraction for the suicidal.
Eliah Al-Saud is a charming young man related to the Arab royal family, a powerful millionaire who heads a French security company that in reality offers clandestine defence and espionage services to the highest bidder.
In September 1930, Aleister Crowley appears in Lisboa unexpectedly. Expelled from Italia by Mussolini himself, Crowley was well-known for being very sinister.