After a devastating breakup with his girlfriend, Mark Oostermans, an ambitious developing countries doctor, retreats to Camp Bilonga, a refugee camp in West Africa. This is where he meets Jeroen Ullings, the foolhardy head of the local medical team: an ex-Jesuit with inciting views on love, science, morality and the so-called enlightened man of today.

‘You can only change the world, if your understanding of death changes’, is one of his credos. What does he mean by that? The raging civil war seems to steer clear from the camp, but once a group of soldiers with questionable intentions arrives, Mark is forced to discover the answer.

In clear prose, sparkling yet precise, the ghosts of this novel cross over from one dimension to the other, alternating between salvation and loss, life and death.