Synopsis: A merciless satire on masculinity, touristification, conspiracy theories, climate, technology, the academic world, and several other things too numerous to list.On the day Alejandro was born, in 1984, in Miami, the son of an unknown father and a sick mother who would die shortly after, and before he was even left in the care of his man-hating aunts who would try to render him useless, we were far from imagining that he would survive, much less have a role reserved for him in history.Fleeing...Synopsis:
A merciless satire on masculinity, touristification, conspiracy theories, climate, technology, the academic world, and several other things too numerous to list.
On the day Alejandro was born, in 1984, in Miami, the son of an unknown father and a sick mother who would die shortly after, and before he was even left in the care of his man-hating aunts who would try to render him useless, we were far from imagining that he would survive, much less have a role reserved for him in history.
Fleeing his aunts and the frustration of not becoming a lighthouse keeper, Alejandro embarks on an almost supernatural cruise, accidentally landing in Lisbon, in a post-Great Blackout world—a planetary cataclysm that shut down all electrical systems for half an hour and gave all women an immense orgasm—and finds paths that will lead him to cross paths with the other protagonists: Alex, the revolutionary dwarf with his beloved dolphin Pablo; the sociologist Hélder, prone to conspiracies and theories of recolonization; and Catarina, a woman on a mysterious mission that forces her to hop between continents in search of a very special man.
An unprecedented epidemic with unpredictable consequences is coming, but the links in the machine are already turning. Prepare for contagion.
