The main character is obsessed with gambling. He earns a lot of money on his little weakness - the murder of elderly, but very rich widows. Yes, even ... He did not just kill them. First, he makes love with them, then kills, and after that or eats them, or digs into the concrete.
Piel, a 7 or 8 year old boy, is alone on the desert planet Perdide, only survivor of an attack by giant hornets. Calling for help, Piel's father's friend Jaffar keeps contact with the kid and hurries across space toward Perdide.
Within the walls of the Grave, the orphanage where Nica grew up, a legend has always been told: that of the maker of tears, a mysterious craftsman, guilty of crafting all the fears and anxieties that inhabit the hearts of men. But at sev…