In Lima, shortly before Fujimori took power, five young people lived immune to a reality that went between terrorist attacks and a galloping inflation. There were middle-class people who believed their lives were not affected by the political reality. But soon they discovered that they were mortally wrong. The other great protagonist of the novel is Lima, loved and hated at the same time, a city eroded by the corruption and the violence where one can still walk silently and hear the sea.