Author: Jorge Franco
- Fiction
- Métailié
- ISBN: 9782864247081
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Tom LaSalle

Vidal, a handsome young man, one day discovers a mark on his neck that is the warning of a fatal illness. Since he's not able to tell Perla the disgrace, he abandons her. He prefers that she make false suppositions. It seems that Vidal dies soon and his condition as an omniscient dead man allows him to tell us about his life and family. But Vidal isn't dead and his relationship with Perla isn't what we believe it to be at the beginning. The unravelling of the intrigue happens in small doses that keeps us on edge for nearly 400 pages.