The story takes place our days, in Bucharest.
The novel focuses on a woman’s story (Laura Iosa),
who hasn’t had any sexual relations for the last 11 years. She falls in
love
with a man she only knows via internet. Although she doesn’t even know
how he
looks like, she is sure to have established a subtle bond with this
character.
In parallel, a hacker (Albert Lazăr) makes a
software experiment; the result of it is that Laura subliminally
absorbs a
series of information (texts, images, Albert’s biography and so on).
Influenced by Laura’s emotions and stimulated by
the „virus” created by Albert, an unseen spirit of the world turns into
the
little red man. Together with him, Laura enters the virtual space
called alazar,
which is actually a world controlled by Albert.
At the same time, Laura and the little red man
live in the very heart of the cruel reality, in Bucharest, where all
sort of
things happen: affairs, redeeming confrontations, a murder, etc.
With all these elements on background, Laura is
looking for her love, by staying in touch with different people on the
internet, meeting various men, hoping for a miracle. She eventually
goes to a
monastery where she writes God a letter, asking Him for a man to love
her.
All this story is re-told by Laura and posted on
the forum where different people who uses the website comments and
sometimes
complete her texts. By posting her story, Laura keeps her promosie to
the
little red man, who in the meantime disappears and from whom she is
waiting for
a sign.
He eventually replies to her, on the same forum,
his answer turningn into the epilogue of the novel.
From his reply, we fiind out that Laura and Albert
met in the real world and had a love affair.
Also, the little red man explains his true nature,
revealing the fact that all the facts that happened or were narrated
within the
novel were linked to a word, asleep in the heart of the world.
The novel is based on two main stories: Laura’s
story and Albert’s story. They both contain about 24 narratives,
intertwined by
various and unexpected epic links.
