The Regime is the perfect mechanism for the extermination of man. Its weapon is the Security agents and their relentlessly square logic. Its weapon is also the persistent distinction only between supporters and enemies. The citizen suspected of conspiring against the Regime must be removed. And since the only witness for the prosecution (or defense) is murdered by the agents themselves, the Plan is put into action: the citizen will be treated with a supposedly friendly human behavior to break or escape during his transfer for interrogation in order to prove his guilt and be justifiably exterminated by Security. During the journey, however, the inhuman rationalism and mathematical perception of the Regime and Security will face an unexpected event; a mistake. The citizen and one of the agents inadvertently manage to share genuinely human moments; a walk, the beach, a ball, the amusement park. Is a grain of humanity enough to short-circuit the relentless perfection of the regime's Plan and the extermination mechanism? The masterpiece of Antonis Samarakis, with Kafkaesque and Orwellian roots, has been translated into 33 languages, in 114 foreign editions, equally loved by critics and readers, honored with the "12" Award in Greece and the Grand Prize for Detective Literature in France, where it was also made into a film titled La Faille.