When a man's mind is a labyrinth of lies, can a single truth set him free?

For Jude, reality is a fractured hall of mirrors. Split into a chorus of three souls—Mi, Mesuf, and Aigh—he navigates the world in the first-person plural, haunted by a past that refuses to stay fixed. With a plan to make today his last, Jude summons a ghostly companion, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, to guide him through a philosophical descent into the streets of an unnamed German city, a city cast in the shadow of Dante's Inferno.

But this is no ordinary journey. As the day unfolds in a binge-eating haze and a series of frantic walks, Jude's past collides with his philosophical present. The novel's structure is as broken as its narrator, blending novelistic prose with the dialogue of a play, and shifting effortlessly between English, German, and memory. The narration itself is an unreliable witness, constantly questioning itself and its own validity.

Yet, in a world where everything is a construct and the past is an illusion, a strange form of hope begins to emerge. In a final act of transformation, Lessing is replaced by the postmodernist Julio Cortázar, and the collective "we" of Jude's mind gives way to a single, fragile "I." This is the story of a shattered man who, on the road to destruction, finds the first, tentative steps toward a new kind of salvation.