A lifer with a 622-year sentence? These things happen. Even if it means the best years of his life. And how much will the rents have gone up by the time he gets out!... Because, of course, he hopes for an increase in the average lifespan. But that's not the worst thing that could happen to him. Worse than isolation, where knitting is not impossible (and embroidery is a feat). Worse than prison cooking, which has caused numerous uprisings... What could be worse? Montecristo! A loneliness consultant, a professional of despair, darkens with his humor the optimistic side of life that our Lifer insists on seeing (when he's not wearing his glasses)... And it's a wild, bitter, biting humor, some of Arkas's best moments, on the smartest pages you've seen lately...