Pérez Domínquez gives us an unforgettable story inhabited by disenchanted heroes, enigmatic women and frantic persecutions, where love reveals itself as the holy grail which is able to redeem all the characters. A moving spy novel in the style of Graham Green's writing which Pérez Domínguez translates to the Madrid and Seville of the 1950s with ease. No man can deceive himself when he's alone and says the name of the woman he loves. January, 1950. When Erika Walter, the widow of a German secret agent, flees to Madrid with an important file containing documents which implicate high ranking Nazis in exile, her lover Martín Navarro, ex-member of the PCE (Spanish Communist Party), is forced to leave París and follow her. Although she knows that prison awaits her in Spain if she is captured by the Francoists or death for betrayal if her comrades from the Party find her.