Querry a world-famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case,' a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation, However, as Querry loses himself in work for the lepers, his disease of mind slowly approaches a cure. Then the white community finds out who Querry is...

(Key Words: Fiction, Literature, Novels, Graham Greene, Lepers, Congo, Africa, Mutilation Suffering, Mental Illness).