With her unparalleled pen, Amelie Nothomb gives voice and body to Jesus, a few hours before his crucifixion. She urges us to get to know a Christ who is absolutely human, with flesh and bones, who ascends submissively to the top of Golgotha. A Christ who is tormented by thirst while at the same time enjoying it, because "to feel thirst, you must be alive." A Christ who lived "with such passion that he died thirsty." No literary restriction hinders the unrestrained and daring imagination of Amelie Nothomb, who, with this book, presents one of her most internal and profound novels.