During the investigation of the disappearance of a girl from Sderot in the summer of 2014, Elish Ben Zaken, Shimon Adaf's gifted detective, met the poet Nahum Farkash for a moment. At that moment he may have missed the most important clue he had in that investigation. Fourteen years later, in an Israel that has undergone great changes, the failure of this investigation continues to haunt the lives of Elish's nephews, Tahel and Usheri. Who is Nahum Farkash? In what way is his history the key to the mystery of the disappearance? Why does their narrator, who calls himself "I, meaning me", choose to tell them out of order? Is it possible that he, the narrator, also serves as the tip of a thread in another, bigger mystery, in which Alish, Tahel and Usheri are central figures? And can the detective story itself, with its characteristics, still be a framework for dealing meaningfully with each of these questions?
