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This story begins at a lake flooded by the sea, continues across a country in the grip of the war and spreads across a maze of trenches on the banks of a river that acts as the frontier with a bad dream. It's the story of a mystery; of the Scottish soldier Elgin Gairloch, recruited to fight in France, and how he returned home following the last battle of the Somme in the spring of 1918.

Lucía loves the way Lucas smiles, the new boy in her class, smiles. She immediately approaches him because she thinks it must be hard to arrive in a new place where everything and everyone is unfamiliar, but as the days go by she notices that Lucas has grown close to Fran and his gang. This surprises her as they are complete hooligans.

In the prison infirmary, Fede Cortés remembers the roller coaster ride of his life. Prime suspect for multiple murders, he tells a story, written according to the conventions of noir, that plunges us into a delirious atmosphere where the line between good and evil is blurred and happiness, a scarce and finite resource, is distributed as arbitrarily as justice.

The symbiosis between the author and his main character reaches the point where events and not a few roles are reversed. The first three people in this singular tale switch back and forth like the viewpoint of a swimmer. All that is needed is a complicit reader to close the circle and complete the trinity…