It is nighttime, a woman is sitting in her garden, not expecting anyone and taking short sips of a gin and tonic. The darkness and the relaxation caused by the alcohol bring out in her a sharp dissatisfaction, together with the longing for a profound change in her life. The stories in this book are based on this premise, each starring a different woman and all of them linked to a nocturnal garden. An extramarital relationship divided by a meager wall of bougainvillea, a huge and shadowy underground root that threatens the lives of two children, a lonely woman who leaves her house to camp in her garden and two domestic workers who dream of swimming at night in the pool of a mansion are some of the stories where Morábito's imagination reaches a richness free of ties and makes each of them a disturbing immersion in the female soul.
