The Comfort of the Fallen

Why do some people achieve domination over others with incomprehensible ease?

Where is the source of human aggressiveness?

How does the mechanism of social hierarchy arise?

--- These are the questions that concern psychiatrist Sol Lasky, who has endured the horrors of the concentration camps of Chełmno and Sobibór.

Finding suitable answers for this brave man means preserving sanity and faith in humanity.

Meanwhile, a secret society comprising beings with paranormal abilities, creatures that only outwardly resemble humans, plays a sinister game, toppling governments and destroying individuals easily, as if sweeping pawns off a chessboard.

But even a pawn can sometimes corner a king...