Pisatelyu Arielyu Dorfmanu nuzhny dengi. Dengi est u milliardera Dzhozefa Horty. On nanimaet pisatelya, chtoby tot raskryd pravdu o smerti Salvadora Alende. Preispolnennye blagodarnosti k pokoynomu prezidentu Chili i nastoychivoy potrebnostyu uznat, ubiystvo ili samoubiystvo oborvalo ego zhizn vo vremya gosudarstvennogo perevorota 1973 goda, dvoe muzhchin pristupayut k rassledovaniyu, kotoroe privedet ih iz Vashingtona i Nyu-Yorka v Santyago i Valparaiso i, nakonets, v London. Oni stalkivayutsya s nezabyvaemymi personazhami: svadebnym fotografom, kotoryy mozhet predskazat buduschee pary, gotovyascheysya pozhenitsya; politseyskim, presleduyuschim seriynogo ubiytsu, napadavshego na bezhentsev; revolyutsionerom, poymannym pri popytke pokusheniya na diktatora; i, prezhde vsego, so slozhnymi zhenschinami, kotorye podderzhivayut ih na etom puti po lichnym neochevidnym prichinam. A esche oni dolzhny vstretitsya litsom k litsu s sobstvennymi tyazhelymi istoriyami, chtoby nayti put vpered - dlya sebya i dlya nashey opustoshennoy planety. To, chto nachinaetsya kak intriguyuschaya literaturnaya avantyura, pererastaet v uvlekatelnuyu filosofskuyu sagu o lyubvi, seme, muzhestve, i izgnanii, glavnyy vopros kotoroy, chem my obyazany miru, drug drugu i samim sebe.
