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Eneko and Aritz split their time between their studies, work and political militancy on the left of the Basque Nationalism. By chance, they meet Libia, a young hippy who sells jewelry in the street, and they enter a ménage à trois in which friendship, love and sex become confused..
In this book, art plays a significant role. Museum director Alexander Kahn is carrying out some research to find the original of the work 'City of towers', a drawing by Paul Klee from 1929. In his search the protagonist must penetrate the darkest spaces of the city, physical and mental tunnels of the human condition.
Who is writing the texts that the protagonist of this novel keeps finding in the most unexpected places? Firstly, within the pages of a bible, later in the walls of an abandoned lighthouse and in a doctor’s waiting room in Vienna. The hidden stories speak about him and his life: the man he could have been and the man he may end up becoming.