Nine-year-old Louis Drax has long exhausted all his reserves of luck: he fell onto the rails, suffered from tetanus and meningitis, and, despite this, is still alive!
However, a picnic in the mountains, to which Louis goes with his parents, is not destined to end well: the boy dies, but after a few hours, in an incomprehensible way, he returns to life.
While Louis himself wanders in the twilight of a coma, communicating with strange otherworldly creatures, his doctor tries to understand the essence of what happened to the child and his family.
After all, such an incredible craving for death, combined with an even more incredible vitality, simply must have a hidden psychological reason …
EKSMO, 320 p.