A mother attends the trial of her only son. He is twenty-three; he will be sentenced to thirteen years in prison, for murder.

Yet he was always a good little boy who never hurt anybody. She should know, she lived with him all those years. It was just the two of them, and she did everything she could for him. Overwhelmed with misery, the mother tries to cope with this newfound solitude and with the endless night that is beginning…

The novel is an interior monologue – in the mother’s voice –alternating between moments from the past and ones from the trial. The author, who is also a lawyer, portrays the wheels of Justice in all their violence and absurdity.

Night Will Begin, a novel with a pounding musical rhythm, is also a magnificent portrait. Of a Mother, in all her splendor and misery.

After the trial at which her only son gets a long prison sentence, a mother tries to understand and cope with the ordeal she’s going through.