Do you know what the Crime Club is? Fifteen-year-old Daniel has to recover after a brutal accident that took his father's life and left his mother in a coma, lying in a hospital bed.
The world is ending. The rust-coloured sky drips acid rain over covered cities incapable of communicating with each other. Peter lives in Madrid, one of the few big cities that have survived a series of natural disasters and wars.
Martínez, a young Argentine, decides to set off on a trip to Germany in search of an old philosophy professor close to Heidegger’s circle –Hans-Jürgen Hollenbach– in order to discuss with him the Spanish translation of one of his books.
Matthieu is a young musical genius who, fascinated by the magic of Versailles and its wild parties, yearns to be part of the orchestra of Louis XIV, the Sun King.
Everyrone has secrets. Harriet, a young, candid and innocent English girl who has just married Desmond Ferneaux-Lighfoot, the captain of the Grenadier Guards who is much older than she, is about to discover this.