What kind of story do you become after you are gone?
Mattias died. And they were left behind. They tell the story. Eight individuals, eight perspectives. Some of them loved him, others didn’t even know him, all their memories are different. In every one of those eight lives he played a crucial role, especially by not being there. Slowly, it becomes obvious who Mattias was and what happened that evening.
After Mattias is a suspenseful novel about today’s fears, about dealing with loss, and about the tales that we tell each other, because that is the only thing still left to do.