Ozgür, a young student from Istanbul, arrives one day in Rio thinking she will be staying with an academic. A taxi takes her to the address indicated, where, unfortunately, she is not expected. Alone in this city overflowing with sensuality but also terror, she decides to stay. And so begins for her an initiation through the fall.
Every day, violence draws closer and poverty suffocates her, but Ozgür pushes back fear, circumvents death, then tames it. Every day, vertigo draws her, towards the depths, towards the very heart of Rio de Janeiro, a sublime labyrinth hiding behind its carnival mask a monstrous creature that will reveal the young woman to herself: she will write a book.
A hymn to the fragility of man in his own hell, The City Whose Cape is Red was hailed, upon its publication in 1998, as a masterpiece.
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