[3] Set in the 1980s, the protagonist, Diego Lazkano, who works as an interpreter, has two best friends, Zeberio and Soto[4] who are arrested, tortured and ultimately murdered by a Spanish Civil Guard.
[6] The author relates the events in his novel with art, he mentions his favorite painters and talks about the works that have marked more, it distances the reader from the main plot, the Soto and Zeberio starring.
Cano creates a narration very fast by modern technique, using the premise of some events that occurred in the 80s, to enter all these years now.
[7] These two murders occurred during La Guerra Sucia ("the Dirty War") where the Spanish government, from 1983 to 1987, established illegal death squads to fight Basque nationalist and separatist organizations.
Lasa and Zabala were arrested in the town of Baiona, a municipality in France, and then taken to the city of San Sebastian in Spain, where they were tortured.
In his childhood, he joins a theatre group, because of his love for a girl named Gloria, where he met his two best friends, Soto and Zeberio.