A humanitarian worker is challenged in his certitudes after meeting a savvy child worker.
Theo, a dispirited workplace humanitarian, audits Malak, a child working at a cardboard plant in a port city somewhere in Asia. He is touched by the child's low-key fortitude, showing a maturity beyond his years. When that boy, the same age as his own son, disappears, Theo cannot let it rest. His quest for answers only raises more questions about the traps of structured help and acquired privilege.
An unsettling 11 000-words psychological drama, quietly told by multiple awards-winning Canadian SF author Michèle Laframboise.
