Fifteen years after the scandal of Los días terrenales (The Days of the Earth), Revueltas returns to his true colors as a rebel and heretic. On one side of the scale, extraordinary militants like Olegario Chávez and Eladio Pinto; on the other, the party's priests. The backdrop is history: trials and purges in the USSR, a strike in Mexico City, the murder of a moneylender, a fascist ringleader, and the Goyaesque figures of the pimp, the dwarf, and the whore. A great novel where history bears the face of each of the characters.