Juan, un oficinista promedio con una familia promedio, descubrirá una mañana en plenas vacaciones en Mar de Ajó que un hombre yace en el baúl de su auto. La aparente normalidad de su vida quedará amenazada, a punto de desintegrarse, a menos que reaccione pronto. El tiempo se astillará en todas las direcciones. Juan buscará en el pasado las causas que lo dejaron al borde del abismo, con un muerto a cuestas al que apenas vio una vez en su vida y del que deberá deshacerse cuanto antes; en el campo, en el mar o en cualquiera de los pueblos que orillan la ruta. La travesía tendrá nuevos peligros, acaso mayores que los originales, y esos trances ruteros lo llevarán a recordar cada una de las piezas de un rompecabezas que parece condenarlo. En su familia política Juan hallará parte de las respuestas. Su esposa, la hermana melliza y su concuñado Walter han tejido en torno a la figura patriarcal de Alessandro Stampone, un parco abuelo siciliano, una red densa que una vez cerrada le dejará pocas vías de escape.

Juan, an average office worker with an average family, will discover one morning during his vacation in Mar de Ajó that a man is lying in the trunk of his car. The apparent normality of his life will be threatened, about to disintegrate, unless he reacts soon. Time will splinter in all directions. Juan will look in the past for the causes that left him on the brink of the abyss, with a dead man on his back that he barely saw once in his life and that he will have to get rid of as soon as possible; in the countryside, in the sea or in any of the towns that border the route. The journey will have new dangers, perhaps greater than the original ones, and those road trances will lead him to remember each one of the pieces of a puzzle that seems to condemn him. In his political family, Juan will find part of the answers. His wife, his twin sister and his brother-in-law Walter have woven around the patriarchal figure of Alessandro Stampone, a laconic Sicilian grandfather, a dense network that once closed will leave him few avenues of escape.