Michael Bailey

While investigating the disappearance of an US Marine recruit at a top secret SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance & Escape) training site, Avril Heart, an undercover Department of Homeland Security agent, endures 'enhanced interrogation' in order to learn the truth. After the death of another Marine cooperating with her investigation, Agent Heart discovers a shocking conspiracy that calls into question everything she is fighting for.

Two friends are looking for new topics of conversation. A couple quietly bicker. A woman talks about herself as a drowing soul. Twelve characters (eleven writers and a painter) - bitter, tender, funny - beat their heads against the wall of the banality of human existence and against words...Will a great destiny ever come to the aid of their petty miseries?