Author: Jorge Ibargüengoitia
- Fiction
- Booket
- ISBN: 9789682710087
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: America Reads Spanish

“The story I am about to tell begins on a night when the police violated the constitution.” The narrator continues to describe how he fled México City for a small town where he hopes to stay with his wealthy uncle and wait for the problem with the police to blow over. He arrives to find that his elderly uncle is very ill and his cousins are very suspicious of the motives for his visit. Many complications ensue.