In a small village on the southern coast of Crete, the narrator meets a
young man who tells him a history of his journey which took him from
Prague as far as to the Libyan sea. It is a voyage to uncover mysterious
deaths of two brothers: one was murdered during the ballet performance,
the body of the second one was found by Turkish fishermen at the Asia
Minor shores.
On the move, the amateur detective is accompanied by one of the
brothers´ girlfriend. They have to work out a lot of traces, clues and
rebuses - seemingly meaningless clusters of letters in the picture of a
Hungarian painter, fragments of words created in the sea by bodies of
phosphorescing worms, puzzling shapes of jelly sweets found in a small
shop in Croatia or the plot of an American sci-fi thriller movie, which
the protagonists watch in the cinema in Rome suburb.
Such leads send the heroes from town to town, the plot takes part on
night trains and many places in Europe - in Bratislava, Budapest,
Lublan, on the islands of Mykon and Crete... With the search for the
murderer of both the brothers many other stories are interconnected, and
they take the readers to even more distant places of the Earth: Moscow,
Boston, Mexico City...
