A novel of total ambition, driven by virtuoso writing and construction, which interweaves present voices and past events to unfold, through the odyssey of a man in desperate search of identity and meaning, the flamboyant epic of a family spanning five generations. A dive into the heart of the great moments of the history of the United States, but also the portrait of a society confronted by chaos that is constantly rebuilding itself.

When, in April 1999, his wife Maureen narrowly escaped the Columbine massacre, Caelum sought refuge with her on his childhood farm in Three Rivers, Connecticut.
It is there that he discovers unexpected family archives: the letters of his grandmother, an abolitionist activist, devastated by the loss of her sons at the front; the diaries of his great-grandmother, founder of the county women's prison, haunted by her sister's descent into hell; press clippings on the local tragedies of the 1960s, when Caelum grew up alongside an alcoholic father who returned traumatized from the Korean War...
As his research progresses, Caelum, stunned, sees two centuries of family history full of sound and fury recomposed, and the terrible secret of his origins resurface...

To try to understand this infinite anger that has always inhabited him, Caelum will have to explore the darkest corners of his memory...