It is July 9, 2015, two minutes past two in the afternoon. In La Laguna, the old capital of the archipelago, the air temperature is 29.1 degrees. The sky is clear, cloudless, and so bright blue that it could just as well be white. This is where it begins. And with Rosa, who returns to the island and to the dilapidated house of the once influential Bernadottes. Rosa is searching. What exactly, she does not know. But for a while, it seems that she might find it at the Asilo, the nursing home in La Laguna. Of all places, where Julio, still serving as the doorman at over ninety years old, resides. Julio was a courier in the civil war, a prisoner of the fascists, he fled and returned, and today he guards the last gateway to the lives of the island's elderly. Julio is Rosa's grandfather. On her mother's side. One who knows privilege only as that of others. Inger-Maria Mah.