BOOK PRESENTATION "THE WEIGHT OF OTHERS", by Fábio Ventura, by Helena Rocha

August 7 | 8:00 PM

Location: Lagos Book Fair – Armazém Regimental Org.: CM Lagos Duration: 60 min Age rating: M12 Free entry

The Anemone Project revolutionized the world by allowing the transfer of negative memories to other people, in exchange for money. The procedure is expensive, exclusive, and promises a clean restart.

Seraphine and Lázaro Delambre are the sensation couple in the artistic scene: she, an emerging composer and performer, and he, an illustrator renowned for his dark art. Behind their public image, they hide a marriage marked by silence and demons that they decide to hand over to Anemone.

On the other side of privilege, Bento lives on the edge. In debt and exhausted, he works as a courier and agrees to become the receiver of a stranger's toxic memories. The company guarantees that he will never remember them or know to whom they belonged.

Until the day he makes a delivery at the Delambre's home and Seraphine opens the door. In that moment, an intense and inexplicable hatred awakens within him. The memories cease to be diffuse. They become real. Violent. And nothing will ever be the same again.

The Weight of Others is a disturbing psychological thriller about memory, guilt, and relationships in a world held hostage by technology, where forgetting is a privilege and someone always has to carry what has been left behind.

BIOGRAPHY: A true Algarvian, he was born in Portimão in 1986. He is the author of the books Orbias: The Warriors of the Goddess, Orbias: The White Demon (Casa das Letras), Death Wants Me So Well (Amazon KDP), Paper Hearts and Cats in the Night (Minotauro), and translator of the work The Ancient Route of Tea and Horses by Jeff Fuchs (Livros de Bordo). The Sleep of the Guilty marked his debut with Penguin Random House, followed by The Weight of Others in 2026. By day, he works in Communication. By night, he travels through the world of books and literary creation, his passion.