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The Blue Nile provides over half the volume of water flowing from the Nile into the Mediterranean. Nevertheless, almost nothing is known about the basin it flows from, the people who live next to it, the adventures it has had. Javier Gozálbez set himself the challenge of discovering what lies beneath this silence and, like the explorers of old, he started at its source in Ethiopia.

Here again, staring at the mirror, here again with same idea of taking his own life. In his clenched fist, Mum's sleeping pills, the only hope of escaping the hell his school mates make for him; his only reason to live the love he has for his little sister Teresa. Years of bullying at school have reduced Santiago to a shadow of himself.

Dusko's twelfth birthday is the last one he spends at home, because then the Balkan war comes into his life. A child of Sarajevo and a mixture of all the ethnicities of the region, Dusko celebrates his 13th, 14th and 15th birthdays amid a background of struggle, hatred, revenge and lies - between neighbours. After those years, nothing can go back to how it was before.

Auria and the Sforza dynasty are under threat from a rebellion forming within the senate itself. The conspiracy against the life of the Emperor unites some families while others remain loyal, and the situation unleashes a chain of ambiguities and conflicts that provoke the tension between the clans.