Mario, the geometric painter, returns one day to his apartment in the city of Jaén, which he has shared for six years with his wife, Blanca. He finds that another woman, almost identical in features and gestures, has taken her place. He begins to turn over the memories and scrutinize the evidence, trying to discover the reasons for her absence, or to bring her back again. Somehow. Is Blanca really gone? What do you look for in the worlds you are immersed in and Mario is forbidden from entering? In this intense and interesting novel, the Spanish writer Antonio Muñoz Molina delves deeply into the relationship of a man and a woman whose destinies intersected before their world began to shake under the influence of differences and the monotony of life. Molina sheds light on the complexity of emotional relationships and the conflicts experienced by couples who love in their partners today what they may hate in them tomorrow...