Forty centuries after the biblical destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, that same land on the shores of the Dead Sea opens up and a mysterious violet salt springs forth. Its appearance changes the geography of three continents and monopolizes the market's interest. The new substance does not serve, but is served. 

It tyrannizes with its idiosyncrasies. It addicts with its taste. It enslaves with its silent influence. The modern Sodom, the "Colony," proves to be more cunning than even its biblical version. An oppressive atmosphere surrounds their well-hidden secrets, and only one man is able to uncover them: the unsuspecting Fileas Bouk, who one night unlike any other will be called upon to solve the most important crossword puzzle ever devised.

What did Lot's wife see? A phantasmagorical novel, a continuous intellectual game, an unparalleled allegory of fear, sin, and guilt, lurking sometimes in the wet streets of "seaside" Paris and sometimes in the dark corridors of human consciousness.

"A novelistic event […] Is What did Lot's wife see truly so significant? Yes […] A narrative with so many consecutive twists and turns and denials that you wonder what will happen next in each chapter and the entire work together."