Stamos, an art appraiser and eccentric collector, learns that a hermit has painted his portrait with astonishing accuracy without ever having seen him, and is tempted to find out why and how.
Charming and insecure Angelína, trapped in her stagnant marriage, falls passionately in love with a celebrated artist and follows him obediently, even when she has doubts.
The enigmatic Academy of Spiritual Vision, with its extensive network of informants, pulls the strings of a reality where nothing is as it seems.
An old murder sets off a series of blackmail attempts, dragging the protagonists—victims of the “losers’ disease”—into extreme adventures. Hunters and prey, motives and guilt, delusions and hopes, good and treacherous souls collide in murky territory, with comic outbursts along the way.
It is all a miniature of a world where morality is eroded and certainties fall apart, while dark impulses, resignation, greed, thirst for power, corruption, cynicism, and impunity lie in wait.
Standing as a bulwark against this rigged game on every side is love, the alpha of every beginning and the omega of all expectations. Love that arrives on wings and leaves limping, or embroiders unexpected redemption in the darkness.
