An anonymous Majorcan writer of self-help books discovers that a sensationalist television programme has accused her of having committed a ‘careless near-homicide’. Her supposed victim is a young man, Teo, who was knocked out by a blow to the head from a rubbish bag thrown from the flat where the protagonist lived years before, during her first year at university in Barcelona. She unexpectedly becomes friends with Rut, the unscrupulous journalist who has published her name, while Teo, now recovered, is stalking her with the intention of starting an intimate friendship…