An assignment in Tangier
What happens when responsibility, technology and trust come under pressure?
A six-month consulting mandate. Clear boundaries. Regular journeys home. That is how Christian’s assignment with an industrial pioneer organisation in Tangier begins.
A new plant is intended to turn citrus residues into cellulose fibres for sustainable insulation materials. But an analysis becomes shared responsibility – and a technical task becomes a struggle over quality, capital, market and trust.
As the plant grows, an old pattern returns: the desire to be needed and to save everything.
RESTART is a layered industrial novel about leadership under uncertainty, the seduction of being indispensable and the price of postponed closeness. It is not a smooth new beginning, but the harder art of taking responsibility, recognising limits and letting go in time.