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From the author of The Hyena's Smile , three stories intertwine as a mysterious disease advances through a world with increasingly fewer emotional connections.

“Sometimes, good memories become sad. Like walls that still bear the mark of paintings that are no longer there.”

Inês is a neuroscientist renowned for her research into a cure for Alzheimer's. After a tragic event, she withdraws into her grief and begins an obsessive journey whose consequences may be uncontrollable.

Seven strangers wake up with no memory in houses scattered throughout a forest. Their only information comes from an enigmatic letter accompanied by a key. Only the one who gathers the seven keys will be able to remember who they truly are.

Sandro is a lonely nurse living in a segregated society due to a contagious degenerative disease. With a large portion of the population disabled, it falls to him, and those still able, to maintain what remains of the social pact.

Blending three distinct narrative lines, Gustavo Ávila, author of the best-selling novel "The Hyena's Smile ," guides us through the labyrinth of the human mind, traversing a path of mystery, intrigue, and profound reflection. How far will humans go to escape pain? To find answers? And what would they be willing to do to fill their emptiness?