About the book: 2012 / The novel is built around the metaphor of a dried butterfly: our memories are like butterflies caught and pierced with a pin. Joel Haahtela is trying to understand the complex mechanism of human memory and retrieving memories to the surface of consciousness. This is all the more important because, by grasping the thread connecting the past with the present, a person can grasp the essence of what is happening to him. The hero of the book, having unexpectedly received an inheritance from a complete stranger to him, a certain Henry Ruzicka, wants to find out how he is connected with testator. Bit by bit, he begins to collect what is left of Ruzicka, follows in his footsteps, and it turns out that, having become the owner of someone else's house and other people's things, he actually receives the key to his past.