The last novel Céline completed, finished shortly before his death. It continues the story of his flight across Germany at the end of the Second World War, with the narrator, his wife and their cat moving through ruined towns, air raids and chaotic trains toward Denmark. The book brings together memories, digressions and sharp comic portraits in a restless style full of dots and exclamation marks. It is a final, feverish look at a collapsing Europe, told by a narrator who is both witness and self-justifying survivor.