This novel treats about the way in which several personages totally failed fight to get maintain their life on balance,
in spite of all the mishaps that they are going to suffer from almost inevitable way. They are losers that struggle as they can in that grey, sad and diffident Spain in the postwar period, where still weigh too much what anybody will say and the shade of the civil quarrel. A prostitute, to whom his boyfriend mistreats, takes refuge in a rainy afternoon in a small
cinema, and there she knows the usher, a solitary man and quite fond of alcohol. That same night the woman stays to live with him in the small floor upon the cinema where the man lives. They are hardly a few days that the action narrates, until, without being able to avoid the dark destiny that from the beginning seems to fly over to the couple, unties the tragedy of an accidental way . Base in real facts,
written initially as a script for the cinema, Javier Tomeo discovered soon that story had the sufficient entity to give form to a novel. Finally, fulfilling the original intention of the project, this book was taken to the cinema by Pedro Costa. To sum up: a very well written story that it has a swift reading and it gives us a small sample of the dark life in that Spain of the forty’s.