Ariel needed money, and Joseph Hortha had plenty of it. United by gratitude toward the late Chilean president Salvador Allende and the persistent need to know whether murder or suicide ended his life during the 1973 coup, the two men embark on an investigation that will take them from Washington, DC, to New York. to Santiago and Valparaíso, and finally to London. But as they review and analyze Salvador Allende's political struggle, his death, the subsequent diaspora and attempts to return to the country, Ariel and Joseph must help each other explore the guilt and trauma of personal catastrophes hidden in that same past, to ask themselves, in this novel that probes the limits of the novel genre, expanding them in an unexpected and exceptional way, what we owe to the world, to others and to ourselves.