Quicksand: what it means to be a human being

Part I: The crooked finger

The car accident

People reluctantly on their way into the shadows

The great discovery

Quicksand

the future is hidden underground

the bubble in the glass

Last will and testament

The man in the window

Hagar Qim

The lion man

Ice

Turning time in a different direction

A journey into the nether regions

The young medical student

A magician and an imposter

A dream about a muddy trench in Flanders

The caves

The floating rubbish dump

Signs

The raft of death

All this forgotten love

Timbuktu

A different archive

The courage to be afraid

Paris

The hippos

A cathedral and a cloud of dust

Part II: The road to Salamanca

Shadows

Luminous teeth

Photographs

The way out

Paris in flames, 1348

How long is eternity?

Room number 1

The road to Salamanca, part 1

the man who dismounted from his horse

While the child plays

Elena

the awakening according to Plato

Winter night

Relief

Getting lost

The road to Salamanca, part 2

Part III: The puppet on a string

The earth floor

Moving silently from darkness to darkness

Mantova and Buenos Aires

The stupid bird

Who will be there in the end to listen?

Salt water

The buffalo with eight legs

The secret of cave painters revealed

The happiness brought by a rickety lorry in the spring

The war invalid in Budapest

A visit when something both begins and ends

The woman with the sack of cement

A winter in Heraklion

Catastrophe on a German motorway

Jealousy and shame

The twenty-eighth day

Meeting in a amphitheatre

A thief and a policeman

Youth

The dead body on the bench for the accused

A violent north-westerly storm

A fictitious meeting in a park in Vienna, 1913

The puppet on a string

Never being robbed of one's happiness.