Written in an appealing style and with a social and moral backdrop, this novel is full of intrigue and action with a psychological depth, as well as excellent descriptions and dialogue.

In her first novel on the subject of Basque terrorism, Etxenike deals with the traumatic experience of political violence with great literary effect.

In the winter of 1667, Migel de Torres and his brother Diego are accused of high treason and condemned to eternal banishment.

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.