The biggest mystery can be ourselves. That is one of the basic notions that can awaken this novel that is shaping up to be a psychological thriller towards the mysteries of its characters.
Two men face to face, Inspector Jorge Driza and the husband of an assault victim, Be.
It is about the inspector being able to elucidate whether Be's partner has been able to cause her the serious damage that has her bedridden in a hospital bed.
Jorge Driza, firm in his dominant position towards this determination of the facts, is probing the possible aggressor. Sort of like a boxing match where you throw little scoring punches until you think you find a hole to hit a straight to the jaw.
Only in reality Jorge Driza have their guard down inside. There is something strange that identifies the subject under investigation. During the hours that he spends trying to access that place of consciousness where the truth ends up unfolding, Jorge will also do an introspection exercise. Be's partner, unconsciously or not, will bring out aspects of Jorge's own intimacy. The old passions that always drove the world, the desire for the alien, sex ..., the self-sacrificing balance of fidelity, the feeling of ownership of another soul ...
Jorge and Be's husband in a sinister mirror where their pasts and everything they built around love seems to be traced to a robot portrait of two minds that could have thought the same thing. And in such a case Jorge may wish that the accused was not the aggressor, an aggressor who suspiciously resembles himself too much.
While the two men are already searching the open grave for their truths, Be's life seems to be fading irretrievably. And that will be when some of the great secrets emerge to everyone's surprise ...
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