A member of the secret police of a Latin American country without reporting, shortly before being executed, his experience in the Corps. The questions that Imre Kertész always asks us to re-emerge thus: How is the human being involved in the machinery of a dictatorship? How do you get involved in it? In this case, Kertész narrates it from the perspective not of the victim, but of the executioner. With extreme economy, with coldness, he explains the fall of a man into moral indifference and the definitive impoverishment of the soul and gives one of the keys to understand our time.