"We must know our limits and love them," says Arsen Lupen in the prologue of the book. And everything that happens to him and above all in his terrible relationship with Josephine Balsamo highlights it.
Josephine Balsamo, the great passion of Arsen Lupen's youth, the woman who pretended to be the daughter of Count Caliostro - the famous charlatan of the 18th century - and who claimed to hold the secret of eternal youth for herself, does not appear in this book. The reason she does not appear is specific and the reader will understand and appreciate it on their own. However, how is it possible not to mention her name in the title of a story, on which her image casts such a tragic shadow, in a story where love is accompanied by insatiable hatred and revenge hides the abyss within it...