蛇气

夜晚，都市霓虹闪烁，一辆公交车上忽然响起手鼓的节奏声。车内一位年轻乘客拿起手鼓敲击车窗，演奏起即兴乐曲，乘客们纷纷鼓掌称赞。那突如其来的表演让枯燥的旅途布满了惊喜与欢笑，温馨的气氛让人们暂忘所有烦忧。　　Robert Klein is looking for his step-brother, Emanuel, whom he has met only once. Robert visits two companies that have dispatched his brother somewhere in Europe – a Japanese firm that hunts eels and a US trust that conducts illegal probing for methane-mining operations. Robert finds out that his step-brother is successful, and his work is raising doubts among his employers. He decides to follow Emanuel’s trail but is not entirely sure why is he undertaking the trip. He travels through swamp country, picking up clues about his brother's activity. He discovers that his name provokes fear in certain people, ill will in others, and even veneration in some. He then finds out that Emanuel has surrounded himself with a posse of illegal African refugees who are aiding him in his eel-hunting and geological probing.