When journalist Gabriel Santoro published his first book, he did not think that the most destructive criticism would come from his own father. The subject of his book seemed harmless: the life of a German woman who arrived in Colombia just before the Second World War.

But Santoro's father felt betrayed. Why? In the book, there is something that Santoro had not anticipated. Among the phrases hides a secret. Now Santoro has begun to discover what it is.

As he delves into the heart of his father's life, as he reveals the secrets of the present, other things will come to light: the ways in which the war taking place across the sea invaded the lives of those on this side; the events of the 1940s, which in Colombia "destroyed families, disrupted lives, ruined destinies," etc.