Tasmania

In November 2015, the narrator, a journalist with a scientific background, went to Paris to cover a climate summit a few days after the jihadist attacks. The crisis that he plans in the gloomy environment of the city seems a mirror of a more intimate crisis: the one that is going through the relationship he maintains with his partner, Lorenza. And in search of a meaning to everything he is experiencing, to his fears and doubts, while he is preparing a book about the radioactive effects of the atomic bomb, he meets characters who will be more relevant than he suspects: a recently separated friend, a climatologist expert in clouds, a reporter in conflict zones or a priest who has found happiness where he never would have imagined it. One of the things that he will coincidentally discover is that, in the event of a major global catastrophe, Tasmania is one of the best places to take refuge. But his crisis, decidedly, is not his alone: it is that of all of us, that of our life as we know it and that of the planet.