Richard O'Hara is waiting in a hotel in Shanghai for a contract to be signed between the Government of China and western pharmaceutical companies that will make him a wealthy man. After his stay in Asia, he receives a strange commission: to locate a section of landscape that appears in an old photograph. His obsession with this image will take him on a journey around the world in the company of a woman called Amanda. In this vertiginous thriller - one in which accidents have a decisive part to play, vampires are art collectors and the filmmaker David Cronenberg explains what is the real spirit of the twenty-first century - Ricardo Menéndez Salmón displays his confidence in literary fiction as an instrument to interpret our world.