Death One Floor Below

In our fragile world, constantly threatened by ecological disasters, a person can unexpectedly find themselves in a situation that reveals their true qualities. An international journalist arrives to give lectures in a small industrial town located in a lowland. A chemical reaction that begins late in the evening fills the basin with poisonous gas. Thousands of people die—those who were on the streets and on the first floors of buildings. The epicenter of the catastrophe and the attempts to hide its real scale includes the hero of the novel…