A detective fiction focusing on the swirling vortex of sex, death, and intrigue surrounding a Spanish figure skating champion. The SKATING RINK is a darkly atmospheric chronicle of one summer season in the seaside town of Z, on the Costa Brava. The story revolves around the figure skating champion Nuria Martí. When she is dropped from the Olympic team an admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of a mansion. What he doesn't tell her is that he paid for it using embezzled public funds and the skating rink soon becomes a crime scene...