Save Bastard

How can we love when the horizon is collapsing? Thymios Fountas’ queer, undisciplined writing takes us into a futuristic universe, curiously close to our own.

Somewhere in the future, in a sort of wasteland with an air of the end of the world, stands an intriguing, shiny, rugged shape, like a mountain boulder, an iceberg wreck with iridescent sparkles. Or is it a piece of the sky we thought had disappeared? Welcome to the world of Bâtard! The little prince of scoundrels, he uses his poetic superpowers to spit his desire and his wounds into the ears of anyone who will listen. Hunted by a procession of bizarre creatures, he must stand trial in a street court for a murder he can barely remember if he really committed. But his setbacks don’t prevent him from finding love – a powerful, authentic love that will gradually sweep away his bearings, overturning his destiny and awakening, in the depths of his desire, a continent hitherto dormant…