At the Carnival in Venice, a wealthy Mexican meets a person disguised as the last Aztec king of Mexico: Montezuma, who was killed by the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. He also meets three European musical geniuses who filled the history of music with their immortal works: the Venetian Antonio Vivaldi, the Neapolitan Scarlatti, and the English-German. Handel. Did he go back to the eighteenth century? Or did they advance to the twentieth century? In this masterpiece, there is a mixture of truth and fiction, a jump between dates, a mixing of characters and roles, falsification of facts, and skepticism of history, all brought together by Alejo Carpentier within a Baroque concerto in which European music meets African rhythms, and you can imagine the music that resonates within the lines. And the voices that get louder, and the breaths that stop...