Loosely inspired by James Joyce's Ulysses, the story unfolds within a confined space—the economy-class carriages of a Frecciarossa train—delving into the thoughts of individual travelers, all bound by the certainty that, somewhere on that train, or boarding it soon, there is a being capable of draining the thoughts of one of them, leaving them utterly devoid of memory.

Straddling the line between science fiction and mainstream literature, the novel is written entirely in the first person, with each chapter dominated by the thoughts of one or more passengers, mostly seated near each other, just as it happens in reality. These passengers—characters on this improvised stage—experience their lives or fragments of them through their thoughts: their anxieties, fears, urges, and desires.

The Devourer of Memories initially appears as an abstract yet ever-present entity—expected, feared, or even desired—intertwining with individual thoughts until it takes on a concrete form the moment it steps onto the train.

In recent months, the Gedächtnisvampir has already fed on the memories of five people, leaving them nothing more than a shell of their former selves. Who will be its next victim?

(The novel has approximately 76,800 words)