Flight Of The Storks

A journey to the green inferno of the African jungle brings one man face to face with his macabre past. Every year the storks would set off on their astounding 12 000-mile migration from Northern Europe to the remote Central African Republic. One year inexplicably puzzling numbers of them fail to return. At the invitation of a Swiss ornithologist Louis Antioch agrees to investigate the mystery of the birds' disappearance. Before he can set off on his quest however his patron is found dead in bizarre circumstances. Jean-Christophe Grang-'s uncompromising narrative develops at a nightmare pace from a Bulgarian gypsy encampment to a kibbutz in the Occupied Territories to the African jungle to Calcutta where an appalling and gruesome truth emerges: the end of a mission that began with the Flight of the Storks-