Togo

Albert Telldro is adiplomat, ambassador, comfortable, and educated man. He demands the respecthe deserves. He represents his European country in a small African country,then when the rebels approach to get the power he stays there alonerepresenting the countries of the European Union. He is sent to ahostage-rescuing action but he gets captured too. Though they expect ransomefor him too, treat him badly: they torture him, make him suffer, almostexecute him. They kill his one and only hostage companion. The man of respectup until then gets down to his capturers’ level within days and take overtheir ways so he manages to escape. When he thinks he is safe, they capturehim again and at that time he himself shed blood.
We can see from the novel how an educated man becomes foully withinterrible circumstances until he loses his human nature and starts to behaveas an animal hoping to survive. We’ll become witnesses how a man like thatsurvives horrible times. He does everything to get to the small country ofhis dreams Togo, because he can only become human again there.