Nicolas Gruber

In the early 20th century, Lazar -a taciturn woodsman- asks the disenchanted portraitist Arkadi to immortalize his child. The execution of this portrait will unsettle both men while revealing their inner fears and change their outlook on life.

Patrick Decuir, a wholesaler in agricultural products, finds himself in a strange village where everybody takes him for a man called Samuel Krohm. This new identity will get him into trouble with a multinational biotechnology corporation, which seems to be employing "Krohm" in occult activities...