Euphoria

Heinz Helle

Somewhere in the Austrian Alps a group of men in their thirties have gathered for a weekend away. When they come down from their cabin the world has ended.

As the men wander through this destroyed human landscape Euphoria's nameless narrator reveals only small shocking details - a crashed helicopter a boy sitting impassively beside his murdered parents a provincial nightclub full of charred bodies. Seeking food and fuel for the fire but finding only the pointless remnants of their suddenly vanished world the men realise that all they have left is their lives. And are those really worth anything in a world where their future has crumbled away their past remains only as an empty taunt and their present is reduced to the monotonous trudge of animal survival?

An austere troubling tale of how quickly men become beasts Euphoria explores the repressed savagery of human nature and the disturbing meaningless of a world run free from society's restraints.

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