A woman comes from abroad to the Valley where the man she loved has just died. By inquiring about his death, the novel confronts the fate of a group of friends (young people from the seventies, but also from any youth of the 20th century) who spent part of their lives building paradises and becoming disillusioned with them, developing antagonisms and later being their first victims, consecrating themselves to the illusions of ideologies and giving in to the wounds that do not heal as the motor of their acts.