A fascinating journey to the bottom of the sea, a powerful novel about the enormous weight of loneliness in a hyperconnected world. A journalist in crisis embarks on a ship departing from Cape Town to write a report on the repair of submarine fiber-optic cables. On the high seas, his fascination with Conway, the head of operations -- a charismatic and impenetrable man -- turns into an unsettling relationship between the two of them. A profound novel about what it means to be connected in an increasingly fractured world.
