The Amazing Ernesto, prestidigiator, is on his uppers, haunted by the death of his escapologist brother who drowned in a failed stunt which took him to the bottom of the river, and by the loss of his girlfriend Esther. His previous mentor Al, once Flosso the Magnificent, turns up having escaped yet again from his nursing home. One trying to forget the past that haunts him, the other with genuine memory loss, go on the run with con artist Lender and his daughter Claire, running from child services and the law. Homeless and destitiute Ernie and Al teach Claire card tricks and a tender friendship springs up between the failed magicians and the father and daughter. It can never end well, but resolutions do come, and love, and good choices made for the right reasons. A compelling, quiet and sensitive graphic novel with starkly charming black and white graphics.
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