A thirty-three-year-old man has been bedridden for a long time, without leaving his apartment. From there he tries to rebuild his life by writing it, tying the memories around the knot that would forever mark his existence: his mother's departure, in the summer of 1994, when he was just a child, to join the Zapatista uprising that convulsed the country. The then mysterious escape is aggravated by the secrecy of a clumsy father, who does not know how to deal with the responsibility of being in charge of the protagonist and his teenage sister, and the erratic inquiries that the child undertakes to reveal the mother's motives .

Abandonment adds it to a distressing parallel world: it will seek, without much success, to take refuge in the compulsive realization of origami figures, or in a Capsule of zero luminosity in which it is locked for long periods with the intention of erasing its existence. Finally, with the help of the Rat - budding juvenile delinquent - he will embark on an initiatory journey beyond the confines of the Education colony to get to know the face of free cruelty, but also the selfless kindness of strangers.

With the main nerve, his second novel, Daniel Saldaña Paris has recreated with spooky accuracy the phantasmagoria of a hypersensitive childhood, marked by an event that will have to be repeated, distorted, in the volatile layers of the protagonist's memory. For this he has used an elegant prose, which delicately builds the compassionate look that the narrator directs to that child with whom he no longer has any ties, beyond a disturbing drive of symmetry and the fear of discovering the truth of its past