Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a 'hero of our time': his cleverness in always standing on the 'right' side of life makes him a man satisfied with himself, a person who uses hypocrisy to please others. Until one night he hears an unknown woman fall into the waters of a river. This so good, so merciful, so reconciled with the 'right', human behavior, will not help her and then everything around him will collapse. After 'The Stranger' and 'The Plague', Camus with 'The Fall' completes his masterful trilogy that made him famous all over the world, earning him one of the most deserved Nobel prizes in the history of the institution. [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]