By Carla O’Gallchobhair

It is August of Year Eight of the world revolution that began in 2021. Our comrades were actually just planning walks through Paris to assist Danton and his brigade at Ponts et Chaussées in overcoming the traditional national-capital, bourgeois, and modernist views of the future of Paris, and return to an ecological village view. Paris is already beautiful, but it should become a city of justice and peace and environment-friendly as well. They have organised themselves in twenty brigades of four to five members, and the first brigade has just begun its work in the quarter of Les Halles, the old market district of Paris, when they meet Raphael and their visions of the future get confronted with an age-old problem still sweltering even in revolutionary Paris – homelessness, and the accompanying danger of descent into loneliness, addiction and crime. Not enough, the ex-capitalist oligarchs whom they believed to be either reconciled with the revolution or burnt in the volcano, suddenly appear again in the centre of Paris, and are possibly planning new acts of terror.