Publisher's blurb:
As the musician Nick Cave immerses himself in his dark and grotesque tale of a religious town in USA, the boundary between reality and fiction blurs. Influenced by mania, depression and drugs, he writes a story in collaboration with aspects of himself.
Nick Cave embarks on a chaotic journey as he writes his debut novel, '"And the Ass Saw the Angel'" A tale of the grotesque and macabre set in a decaying town in southern America, rotting in conjunction with its increasingly fanatic inhabitants.
The scenario is based on a writer's dialogue with himself; the writer's desires for the novel's development become real people—The Ass, The Angel, and Nick—who, together in the writer's dark apartment, venture into the novel to achieve consensus and balance amongst themselves.
The scenario unfolds fluidly as players switch between taking on the roles of characters in the novel and aspects of the writer.
Throughout the writing process, the author grapples with his mind's ambiguous nature, periods of explosive mania and debilitating depression interrupted only by the soothing apathy of heroin. This is shown by using real-colored lenses, altering the experience as parts of the prompts are revealed and concealed by their character's mental state.