In 1924 the anarchist Pablo Martín Sánchez was condemned to be garrotted, accused of attempting to bring down Primo de Rivera's dictatorship. His homonym, the writer Pablo Martín Sánchez, seeks, in this unsettling novel, to reconstruct his story. Through the life of this character and his world, we are witness to key moments in the future of contemporary Europe, such as the birth of cinema, the anarchist movement in Paris and Argentina, the life of important intellectuals exiled in France, Barcelona's Tragic Week and the social tension of the old world in the interwar period. Readers, held in suspense, will witness and be astonished by the fate that awaits the protagonist. His adventures and misfortunes will keep readers trapped in a plot as exciting as it is difficult to forget.