Ellie swore she’d never return to her hometown. But when her ex-bestie reopens the murder case that shattered their lives, she has to join the investigation. Because after all, Ellie is the killer.

Cesium-137 investigates the tragic accident in Goiânia, Brazil, and the chain of errors committed by the highest levels of public authority, which, along with the ignorance of ordinary citizens, led to the world’s second-largest radiological accident, destroying families and leaving unhealed wounds.

A Hasidic woman, carrying a dark secret, and a stubborn secular kibbutznik, form an unlikely partnership to create the perfect pantyhose, unraveling the threads holding their worlds together.

In a perfectly “peaceful” society run by Sapiens technocrats, one Neanderthal’s naïve curiosity — and his disastrous love affair — might be the most intelligent act of rebellion in human history.