"Balanzá becomes part of the elite of Spanish prose writers of his generation, for the originality and sharpness that displays both the invention of the arguments as in the literary development of them are overwhelming."
Luis Alberto de Cuenca, ABCD

Caceres valley and in the nineties were part of a group of pop rock. They practiced together, played together, got drunk together. They have for many years when they are seen in a cafe. There chatting animatedly and remember, laughing, anecdotes of the past. Valle then announces to his friend who has decided to kill him and he will soon. The rest of the novel becomes something like the shock wave of this first revelation from which the story progresses exciting to a surprising and strangely lyrical denouement that will leave the reader breathless.

The Café Gijón Prize jury highlighted the "narrative audacity" of the work of Rafael Balanzá, "whose plot is based on a well-constructed structure that keeps the reader in suspense, leading to a witty and unexpected outcome."