The Leader has already appointed the Chosen One, the one who will direct one of the most important universities in the country during the next six-year term: a man of humble origins and strong character. University officials question his decision: if there are more suitable candidates for the position, if it is impertinent, if in the end it will end up being a problem for the institution. But the great hand he leads from the shadows has begun to move the pieces and will hold its own even as the board begins to wobble.

The rector takes up a well-known tragedy that occurred in Jalisco and transforms it into a political thriller narrated from within, from the voices of its actors, from those involved: a magnanimous and all-powerful Leader, a Governor fond of drinking and a Rector tortured by the contrast of their ideals and political reality. With this novel, Roberto Castelán Rueda reflects on the complications of power and its ravages on those who hold it, and makes us wonder how masters we really are of our own destinies.