The stories that make up this book could be the chapters of a study on difficult decisions. Each one of them stops and turns around these sometimes occasional, sometimes extravagant, disjunctives, of which its protagonists - and we as readers - emerge changed. There is no lesser decision, no easy conviction: Someone's accounts have to be told to concentrate the risk of deep uncertainties. Slowly but in control of the stories he builds, Juan Manuel Villalobos makes cities as dissimilar as Sydney, Vienna or the Federal District, more than backdrops, sentimental geographies. It is within those scenarios constructed with a prose in constant tension where the characters set and sentence their future.