Forty centuries after the biblical destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, that same land on the shores of the Dead Sea opens up and a mysterious violet salt bursts forth. Its appearance changes the geography of three continents and monopolizes the market's interest. The new substance does not serve, but is served. It enslaves with its idiosyncrasies. It addict with its taste. It subjugates with its silent influence. The modern Sodom, the "Colony," proves to be even more cunning than its biblical version. An oppressive atmosphere surrounds their well-hidden secrets, and only one man is able to uncover them: the unsuspecting Fileas Bouk, who one night, different from the others, will be called upon to solve the most important crossword puzzle ever invented.

"What did Lot's wife see?" A phantasmagorical novel, a continuous mental game, a unique allegory about fear, sin, and guilt, lurking sometimes in the wet streets of the "seaside" Paris and sometimes in the dark corridors of human consciousness.