It is the story of Jose, a bullfighter, discovering the city of Oran in the 1950s and its unjust underground society. It is also the story of José's lover, Angelina, who carries the memory of gypsies who ended up in Nazi gas ovens. A novel about the overlapping mixture of accumulated cultures and nationalities, interacting and discordant at the same time. Undeclared identities, on the brink of explosion, and others in the process of formation.