Who are we really? What makes us the people we think we are, and what happens when what we thought we were gives way to something else? What is the secret nature of the things of this world? Olivia heads to Manchester. And what she will remember is something she forgot she knew about her father, who disappeared when she was fourteen. Olivia is an actress. Edward Byrne was a visual artist; when he left, he left hundreds of unanswered questions, but no evidence, no certainty, no corpse... Patricio Pron debuts at Editorial Anagrama with a novel about family, flight, loss and its paradoxical advantages; about imposture, vocation, fear of the future and the possibility that the deep meaning of the things of this world is found in the stories we tell ourselves. A magnetic and unique detective story about those mysteries that are part of our most secret nature.