Bolivian National Award. A novel that will leave you breathless. The clash of two cultures is elevated exponentially by unprecedented suspense. Banished from her own home and deprived of seeing her son, Lea, a Bolivian immigrant in Toulouse, finds herself on a “desert journey”. Upon returning to her country, the ghosts of her dark family past reappear, seriously threatening the protagonist's mental health. Thus begins this novel that from the first moment surrounds us like a spider web. From the first pages, the reader finds himself trapped in a suspenseful plot that reveals with shocking naturalness the cultural clash between two countries as different as Bolivia and France. A surprisingly original novel endowed with mystery that has made Guillermo Ruiz Plaza one of the most singular voices in the new Hispanic American narrative.