The image of an investigator facing one of those unsolved cases provides a first notion of complexity, of entanglement, of some kind of enigma that prevents the truth from emerging. And as you always think of the unpunished, those people protected by their social, political or gender status that can grant them some kind of privilege even in sinister matters such as murders.
The truth about the Ferni case, the one that originated from the shooting death of Ferdinand Cubillo, seems to take root in very remote matters, and perhaps that is the reason for the difficult determination of its nature. As a gastronomic critic that he was, good old Ferni could be guessed at times depending on whether he chose one side or the other of his hotel evaluations, but as if to kill ...
A year after the violent death, Vicente Parra, ertzaintza and in charge of the case at the time, has well internalized all the information gathered for months and months. It is difficult to forget a corpse demanding justice.
Thanks to this assumption of the badly closed case as something pending that resounds every day, you will soon find undeniable links in events of a similar dark nature. Vicente moves between the hopelessness of being able to confront a serial killer that he cannot be able to catch, and the hope that the criminal has manifested himself again.
But every murderer is capable of hating and killing for something. There is always an underlying motive that, ruminated in the opportune mind, serves as a shuttle for the most summary revenge. What happens today is not just a matter of the most immediate yesterday. Sometimes you have to look further back in time so that today's pieces can finally fit together.
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