This book, which revolves around the crisis of family relationships and the identity problem faced by the protagonist, a girl of 17 who watches the ideal world she has created crumble, revisits, in the heart of a well off Barcelona family, a series of literary motifs that go from Shakespeare's Hamlet to the theme of Electra. The protagonist's disjointedness highlights the mediocrity and hypocrisy of family life and the hidden interests that motivate the characters, such as Eusebio Baixeres, her biological father, victim of the girl's revenge.