Once a liar, always a liar... Jan Maršálek, wanted internationally for accounting fraud and embezzlement amounting to billions, is suspected of having lied frequently and extensively. Now he is returning from Russia to his mother and sister in the house where he grew up. Why? Out of remorse and to ask for forgiveness? Can so many lies ever be forgiven and can so much guilt ever be forgiven? And what about the lies we ourselves have been so willing to believe and will continue to believe in the future, the lies about brilliant entrepreneurship, about the best company ever, about the European Silicon Valley, about immeasurable success and infinitely rising stock market value? A computer nerd, school dropout, business star, luxury fanatic, adventurer, fraudster and spy asks his mother and sister to take him back home. But they have something else in mind.
‘I want to get up in the morning again and
put on a fresh white shirt and
talk to my friends about company takeovers and
stand on a rooftop terrace and smoke cigars and
invent new company names that sound as beautiful as
the name of a rare bird from the jungle.’