With his surprising, unclassifiable and always magnetic narrative vitola in his narrative proposals, Eloy Moreno invites us in his novel Earth to a kind of dystopia that ends up connecting with television reality shows.
Because ignoring the pink drift of this type of program, the live life maintains an essential link with the literary and the cinematographic. Beyond the Truman movie in his Show broadcast to the whole world, any reading or viewing of a plot supposes that self-projection of our way of understanding the world in the protagonist on duty.
And in this story there are many characters to empathize with to find transcendental reasons that lead them to an adventure with no return. A modern odyssey broadcast for all audiences interested in contemplating the permanent expiation of sins or guilt that predispose the protagonists to flee from everything.
Synopsis: Inside a hidden cabin in the woods, a man makes a promise to his two sons: Think about what you would most like to have in life. If you finish this game, I promise you will have it ...
But that game never ended. Thirty years later, one of the children has managed to fulfill his wish, his sister has not. It is now that she receives a strange gift, an object that will allow her to continue the game.
Eight people have voluntarily decided to enter a contest that consists of isolating themselves from the world forever. The audience thinks they know everything about them, but they don't even suspect the reasons why they made that decision.
That same girl, now a journalist, must find out the connection between the gift and those eight contestants in order to fulfill her wish, if she still wants to. The answer is in Iceland.
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