We are in Nicaragua of the twentieth first century. The country is experiencing civil unrest, which brutally suppressed the totalitarian government, whose powerful hand is the head of the secret service, nicknamed Tongolele. It is precisely this dreaded manipulator that pulls the regime of the regime, the inspector Dolores Morales clashes.

The championship prose of Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramirez gradually reveals the dark and bizarre behind the scenes full of secret, betrayal and dirty intrigues, who must be faced with the Morales inspector with the support of his faithful companions. In a turbulent and unpredictable country, each step may be wrong and those who stand up to be a definitive fall into the abyss.