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Paco, a schoolteacher, has committed a murderous crime of passion, and is sentenced to the bleak penal colony of Saint‐Laurent in French Guiana. It is the 1930s, and conditions are such that a prisoner’s life expectancy is barely five years. For Paco, the realities of this new world will prove tragic. Raped by another inmate, Paco must learn to fight for his survival. A powerful, sensitive tale that shines a light on the harshness of the penal colony (closed only in 1946) and a magnificent testament to the hardships suffered by many prisoners.