In 1947, the authorβs grandfather,Β Arsene Schrauwen, traveled across the ocean to a mysterious, dangerous jungle colony at the behest of his cousin. Together they would build something deemed impossible: a modern utopia in the wilderness β but not before Arsene falls in love with his cousinβs wife, Marieke. Whether delirious from love or a fever-inducing jungle virus, Arseneβs loosening grip on reality is mirrored by the graphic novel readerβs uncertainty of what is imagined or real by Arsene. This first full-length graphic novel from the critically-acclaimed Olivier Schrauwen is an engrossing, sometimes funny, slightly surreal and often beautiful narrative.