An Argentine travels to Prague, as a way of putting some distance from his old way of life. Leaving behind his past, he arrives to this city to work as a tour guide. He believes that his new life in this old world of alchemical and transforming tradition will be surely better than the one he left behind. Enthusiastic with his brand new beginning in Prague, the protagonist of Síndrome Praga (Prague Syndrome) starts to dedicate himself to explaining a city that, however, he does not know. Soon enough, he discovers what he couldn’t have guessed: that locals there don't want visitors; that his work was not what he thought; and that language dislocations are even more disorienting than he could have imagined, especially in relation to sentimental communication with the immediately unforgettable and fatal Katka. But none of this represents the truly particularity that this city is about to show him. Suddenly, there’s something else: four numbers begin to appear on the foreheads of some people randomly walking through the streets. And then, the revelation: those numbers show, with exactitude, the inevitable date of those people’s deaths.

What to do then? Hard to say. First of all -he decides-, keeping a journal: turning to writing as a way of understanding the world around him as well as himself and his own place in this new city and reality.