A young writer living abroad returns to South America to say goodbye to his dying father. At his parents' house, he discovers a stash of documents (articles, maps, photographs) and unknowingly begins to uncover his father's obsession with the disappearance of a local man. He is soon confronted by the ghosts of Argentina's dark political past and the long-hidden memories of his family's clandestine resistance against an oppressive military regime. As the fragments of the narrator's investigation fall into place, revealing not only a part of his father's life he tried to forget but also the legacy of an entire generation, this bold novel tells an original story of corruption, responsibility, history, and memory.