The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri
After her disappearance, a man begins to search for the woman, because he loves her. He searches desperately at first, and then with terrible realization. And we journey with him as he searches, through a frightening, disintegrating world of lies, and violence, and fear. At the heart of this disturbing world lies the Prison.
To survive, and to answer the girl’s question, the young man, like all of us, has to accept the challenge and fight back.