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It is the year of the Lord 1699 and the project to rebuild a new city on the sea has finally seen the light. On the site where the old city once stood, only the cathedral remains, the church of Our Lady of the Waters, a solitary sentinel of memory and of lands now empty and swampy.Luigi Derigo has followed every phase of the works; he saw buildings demolished and built, he convinced his people to leave that land now prey to marshes and fevers to move to the new coastline. He was in charge of taking care of the living and dealing with the dead, to ensure a worthy burial in the cathedral’s crypt. But just the night before moving, Derigo learns a horrible truth. He is then beaten, disfigured, left for dead and thrown into the crypt. He does eventually rise to begin a journey of pain and terror first and then of slow healing of the body, of revenge and finally of healing of the soul.With the arrival of the Age of Enlightenment, he begins his long journey into the darkness of solitude, madness and hatred, up to a ‘rebirth’ which he will achieve thanks to the help of Aunt Pachina, an old witch who knows the hearts of men.