Sebastián Urrutia Lacroix, an Opus Dei priest, literary critic and mediocre poet, goes over his past life during a night with high fever, as he thinks he is going to die. In his feverish delirium various characters, real or imaginary, appear, turned into icy monsters, as if in sequences from a horror film. By the end of the novel there is a hair-raising anecdote: after the coup d’état, Santiago stays without literary gatherings and the Chilean intelligentsia meet in the mansion of a writer, one day a drunk guest, lost in the corridors, discovers a torture room in the basement.... This picture of the basement of suffering beneath the dilettantes of the literary salon is the one that gives this novel real moral and intellectual bite.Thus we are given glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger, General Pinochet, whom Fr. Lacroix instructs in Marxist doctrine, as well as various members of the Chilean intelligentsia whose lives, during a period of political turbulence, have touched upon his.

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